Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may be a more significant determin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Economics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1941-1383,1941-1391
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-081412-103704