TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,William J.
AU  - Thomasson,Melissa A.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 2002; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w8836
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w8836
ER  -