Anderson, D. Mark; Brown, Ryan; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2016
reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to … modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates … are directly relevant to ongoing policy debates both in the United States and in the developing world surrounding the …