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Directed acyclic graph for the association between maternal employment and childhood overweight: 
, exposure; 
, outcome; 
, adjusted variable; 
, unobserved (latent) variable; 
, other variable; 
, causal path. Birth order was highly collinear with child’s age. Therefore, we controlled for child’s age in our primary models.
