Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 / William J. Collins, Melissa A. Thomasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, William J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Thomasson, Melissa A.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8836.

NBER working paper series no. w8836

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2002.