Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?
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Copyright 2009
ISBN 9780226309453
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Copy CitationPatricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitemore Schanzenbach, The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth: An Economic Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 2007), chap. 5, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/problems-disadvantaged-youth-economic-perspective/childhood-disadvantage-and-obesity-nurture-trumping-nature.
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