Emily Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting Better
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The Relationship Between Birth Weight and Health
There's always the issue that if you have lower birth weight because you're a smoker, it may not be as bad as if you naturally would haveLower birth weight or lower birth weight. I don't know why that is, by the way. Very low birth weights are associated with additional problems, typically very early on. And so, and that can mean that lungs are undeveloped and so on. So certainly there are there are ranges of healthy birth weights, which include quite low. Some babies are like great born at five pounds,. But it's correlated, I think, because it's a marker for these other things.
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