Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970
dc.contributor.author | Collins, William J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thomasson, Melissa A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-13T20:40:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-13T20:40:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15704 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 then re-examine the post-war period in light of trends in birth weight, maternal characteristics, smoking, air pollution, breast-feeding, insurance, and hospital births. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | en |
dc.subject | Infant mortality | |
dc.subject | health | |
dc.subject | race | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: I12, J15, N32 | |
dc.subject.other | ||
dc.title | Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 | |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.description.department | Economics |