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Goosby, Bridget J.; Cheadle, Jacob E. – Social Forces, 2009
We used multilevel covariance structure analysis to study the relationship between birth weight, family context and youth math and reading comprehension growth from approximately ages 5 through 14 within and between families. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Sample, we examined the relationship between birth weight…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Body Weight, Reading Achievement, Children
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Deary, Ian J.; Der, Geoff; Shenkin, Susan D. – Intelligence, 2005
There is a significant association between birth weight and cognitive test scores in childhood, even among individuals born at term and with normal birth weight. The association is not explained by the child's social background. Here we examine whether mother's cognitive ability accounts for the birth weight-cognitive ability association. We…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Mothers, Intelligence Quotient, Children