Parental Behavior And Child Health
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 21 (2) , 164-178
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.2.164
Abstract
In this paper we document the ways in which parental behavior and socioeconomic status affect children’s health. We examine parental behavior in both the prenatal period and childhood. We present e...Keywords
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