The Starting Gate
Birth Weight and Life Chances
1st Edition
Published on 8. October 2003
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-520-23866-4 (ISBN)
Description
Seven per cent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and a half pounds. In this text the authors argue that the social and biological determinants and consequences of low birth weight have not been adequately explored by social scientists or natural/life scientists.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 tables, 12 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-23866-4 (9780520238664)
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Persons
Dalton Conley is Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a faculty affiliate of the New York Genome Center. Kate W. Strully is a doctoral candidate at New York University. Neil G. Bennett is Professor at the Baruch School of Public Affairs and in the Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Baby or the Egg? Birth Weight and the Gene-Environment Divide 2. John Henry, Black Mayors, and Silver Spoons: Race and the Inheritance of Birth Weight 3. What Money Can and Can't Buy: Income and Infant Health 4. Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight, Infant Mortality, and Educational Achievement 5. Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Policy Implications Appendix A: Data, Variables, and Methods Appendix B: Tables Notes Bibliography Index Figures