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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Hum Biol. 2014 Nov 20;17:177–189. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2014.10.003

Figure 5. State level variation in women's body mass correlates with neonatal mortaity.

Figure 5

Observations are states in the NFHS 2 and the NFHS 3. The horizontal axis plots the average body mass index score of non-pregnant women age 18 to 30; these ages are the 10th and 90th percentile ages among pregnant women in both the NFHS 2 and the NFHS 3. The vertical axis plots neonatal mortality, the fraction of infants born in the three years before the survey who died in the rst month of life.