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Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 61, 2015 - Issue 2: Long Run Impacts of Early Life Events
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Effects of Birth Month on Child Health and Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa

Audrey M. DorélienHumphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 209-230 | Published online: 12 Aug 2015

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Marek Brabec, Jere R Behrman, Susan D. Emmett, Edward Gibson, Celeste Kidd, William Leonard, Mary E. Penny, Steven T. Piantadosi, Abhishek Sharma, Susan Tanner, Eduardo A. Undurraga & Ricardo A Godoy. (2018) Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age: lasting effects and catch-up growth among native Amazonians in Bolivia. Annals of Human Biology 45:4, pages 299-313.
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Theresa Thompson Chaudhry. (2022) Impact of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on disability in Pakistan among adults age 18–64. Dialogues in Health 1, pages 100062.
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Maryia Bakhtsiyarava & Kathryn Grace. (2021) Agricultural production diversity and child nutrition in Ethiopia. Food Security 13:6, pages 1407-1422.
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Rachel E. Baker & Jesse Anttila-Hughes. (2020) Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Reports 10:1.
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Gabriele Ruiu & Marco Breschi. (2019) Intensity of Agricultural Workload and the Seasonality of Births in Italy. European Journal of Population 36:1, pages 141-169.
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Audrey Dorélien. (2019) The Effects of In Utero Exposure to Influenza on Birth and Infant Outcomes in the US. Population and Development Review 45:3, pages 489-523.
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Amelia B Finaret & William A Masters. (2019) Correcting for artifactual correlation between misreported month of birth and attained height-for-age reduces but does not eliminate measured vulnerability to season of birth in poorer countries. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 110:2, pages 485-497.
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Anna Folke Larsen, Derek Headey & William A. Masters. (2019) Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries. Demography 56:2, pages 707-728.
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Lena Karlsson. (2017) Indigenous Infant Mortality by Age and Season of Birth, 1800–1899: Did Season of Birth Affect Children’s Chances for Survival?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15:1, pages 18.
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Neha Agarwal, Anaka Aiyar, Arpita Bhattacharjee, Joseph Cummins, Christian Gunadi, Deepak Singhania, Matthew Taylor & Evan Wigton-Jones. (2017) Month of birth and child height in 40 countries. Economics Letters 157, pages 10-13.
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Anna Larsen, Derek Headey & William A. Masters. (2018) Misreporting Month of Birth: Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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