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Title: Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details of midwifery laws introduced during the period 1900-1940, and using data assembled from various primary sources, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed reduced maternal mortality by 7-8 percent and may have led to modest reductions in infant mortality. These estimates represent the strongest evidence to date that licensing restrictions can improve the health of consumers and are directly relevant to ongoing policy debates on the merits of licensing midwives.

Url: http://dmarkanderson.com/Midwifery_Laws_and_Maternal_Mortality_07_08_19_v4.pdf

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Authors: Anderson, D. Mark; Brown, Ryan; Charles, Kerwin, K; Rees, Daniel, I

Publisher: Montana State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Other, Reproductive and Sexual Health

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