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