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Research reports

• Assessing the effect of regional deprivation on mortality avoiding compositional bias: a natural experiment (23 October, 2012)

  Katharina Reiss, Ursula Berger, Volker Winkler, Sven Voigtländer, Heiko Becher, Oliver Razum
• The changing contribution of smoking to educational differences in life expectancy: indirect estimates for Finnish men and women from 1971 to 2010 (30 November, 2012)

  Pekka Martikainen, Jessica Y Ho, Samuel Preston, Irma T Elo
• Family economic empowerment and mental health among AIDS-affected children living in AIDS-impacted communities: evidence from a randomised evaluation in southwestern Uganda (13 February, 2013)

  Chang-Keun Han, Fred M Ssewamala, Julia Shu-Huah Wang
• Fruit and vegetable purchasing and the relative density of healthy and unhealthy food stores: evidence from an Australian multilevel study (25 October, 2012)

  Kate E Mason, Rebecca J Bentley, Anne M Kavanagh
• Duration of unemployment and suicide in Australia over the period 1985–2006: an ecological investigation by sex and age during rising versus declining national unemployment rates (23 October, 2012)

  Allison Milner, Andrew Page, Anthony D LaMontagne
• Bed-sharing and risk of hospitalisation due to pneumonia and diarrhoea in infancy: the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort (25 October, 2012)

  Kátia M A Ngale, Iná S Santos, David A González-Chica, Aluísio J D de Barros, Alicia Matijasevich
• Do state breastfeeding laws in the USA promote breast feeding? (19 October, 2012)

  Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Matthew W Gillman
• Effects of a free school breakfast programme on children's attendance, academic achievement and short-term hunger: results from a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial (6 October, 2012)

  Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Delvina Gorton, Maria Turley, Yannan Jiang, Jo Michie, Ralph Maddison, John Hattie
• Changing associations between partnership history and risk of accidents, violence and suicides (29 September, 2012)

  Karri Silventoinen, Heta Moustgaard, Riina Peltonen, Pekka Martikainen
• Dynamic relations between fast-food restaurant and body weight status: a longitudinal and multilevel analysis of Chinese adults (25 August, 2012)

  Hongwei Xu, Susan E Short, Tao Liu
• Housing and respiratory health at older ages (25 October, 2012)

  E Webb, D Blane, Robert de Vries