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Study reveals unique genetic insight into how New Zealand children could age
The country’s largest longitudinal study has found that girls, Pacific children and children born to older mothers have a unique genetic advantage that could potentially help them live longer.
Grant for Growing Up in New Zealand researcher
Growing Up in New Zealand’s senior research fellow, Dr Caroline Walker, has won an Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) award for her pioneering work examining New Zealand children's DNA.
Mind the gap – unequal from the start: addressing inequalities utilising evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand
Evidence gathered from the Growing Up in New Zealand study features in a just-released report looking at how childhood inequalities affect life outcomes.
What will our eight-year-olds reveal?
The Growing Up in New Zealand team is currently hard at work collating the hundreds of thousands of pieces of data gathered from the field when the cohort children were eight-years-old.
How do families make choices about early childhood education?
New research using Growing Up in New Zealand data reveals a fascinating picture of mothers' participation in the workforce and their use of early childhood education services.
Growing Up in New Zealand Newsletter May 2019
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