The intergenerational transmission of obesity: The role of time preferences and self‐control

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Economics and Human Biology

• Publication date

  2018-02-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.12.004PMID 29294461
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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