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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Exploring the influence of the National School Lunch Program on children using the early childhood longitudinal study | Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, 1998-1999 Kindergarten Cohort, the proposed study examines two research questions. First, what are the effects of participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) on changes in children's behavior, test scores, and body weight? Second,... | Children; nutrition; elementary school, meal program | 2006-09-01 |
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Wen, Ming; Van Duker, Heather; Olson, Lenora Mary | Social contexts of regular smoking in adolescence: towards a multidimensional ecological model | Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study investigates factors at the individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, and state levels that are important for subsequent adolescent cigarette regular smoking after controlling for the baseline smoking behavio... | Adolescent smoking; Social capital; Family; Neighborhood; School; Teenagers; Teenage smoking | 2006-09-19 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Procedure to correct proxy-reported weight in the National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002 | Background: Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactua... | National Health Interview Survey; NHIS; Proxy-reported weight | 2009 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: changes in income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | This study examines whether the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock have led to higher family incomes. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain poor. They have made modest econom... | Motherhood; Single Mothers; Income; Population surveys | 2006-07-26 |
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