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Title: Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970

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Publication Year: 2002

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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 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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Authors: Thomasson, Melissa A.; Collins, William J.

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Publication Number: 8836

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Race and Ethnicity

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