Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 /
Collins, William J.
Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 / William J. Collins, Melissa A. Thomasson. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w8836 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8836. .
March 2002.
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in infant mortality rates between 1920 and 1945, but a smaller portion thereafter. We re-examine the post-war period in light of trends in birth weight, smoking, air pollution, breast-feeding, insurance, and hospital births.
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Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 / William J. Collins, Melissa A. Thomasson. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w8836 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8836. .
March 2002.
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in infant mortality rates between 1920 and 1945, but a smaller portion thereafter. We re-examine the post-war period in light of trends in birth weight, smoking, air pollution, breast-feeding, insurance, and hospital births.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.