E, Elder Todd; H, Goddeeris John; J, Haider Steven - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 11 (2011) 1, pp. 1-44
We provide a unified assessment of a striking disparity in the United States: the differential rate at which white and black infants die. We separate the overall mortality gap into three temporal components—fitness at birth, conditional neonatal mortality, and conditional post-neonatal...