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Conley, Dalton; Strully, Kate Wetteroth; Bennett, Neil G

 
9780520238664: The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances

Synopsis

Seven per cent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and a half pounds. In this text the authors argue that the social and biological determinants and consequences of low birth weight have not been adequately explored by social scientists or natural/life scientists.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dalton Conley is Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.  He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a faculty affiliate of the New York Genome Center. Kate W. Strully is a doctoral candidate at New York University. Neil G. Bennett is Professor at the Baruch School of Public Affairs and in the Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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