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Household Wealth and Child Body Mass Index: Patterns and Mechanisms

Courtney Boen, Lisa A. Keister, Nick Graetz
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2021, 7 (3) 80-100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.3.04
Courtney Boen
aAssistant professor of sociology, research associate in the Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center, and senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Lisa A. Keister
bProfessor in the Department of Sociology and Sanford School of Public Policy and faculty research scholar of the Duke University Population Research Institute at Duke University, United States
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cPhD candidate in demography and sociology in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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