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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health
Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016
associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502545
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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine … heterogeneity across counties. Using data from Vital Statistics birth certificate records from 2005-2018 from rural counties in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226183
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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity
Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
in conjunction with event studies. Data come from individual-level birth certificates and state-level hospital discharge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477262
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Drivers of Racial Differences in C-Sections
Corredor-Waldron, Adriana; Currie, Janet M.; Schnell, Molly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Black mothers with unscheduled deliveries are 25 percent more likely to deliver by C-section than non-Hispanic white mothers. The gap is highest for mothers with the lowest risk and is reduced by only four percentage points when controlling for observed medical risk factors, sociodemographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056217
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Geographic variation in cesarean sections in the United States : trends, correlates, and other interesting facts
Robinson, Sarah; Royer, Heather; Silver, David - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 42 (2024), pp. S219-S259
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014524838
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The Contributions of Socioeconomic and Opioid Supply Factors to Geographic Variation in U.S. Drug Mortality Rates
Monnat, Shannon - 2019
Over the past two decades deaths from opioids and other drugs have grown to be a major U.S. population health problem, but the magnitude of the crisis varies across the U.S., and explanations for widespread geographic variation in the severity of the drug crisis are limited. An emerging debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891244
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COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality : Disparities Within Large U.S. Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composi...
DiRago, Nicholas; Li, Meiying; Tom, Thalia; Schupmann, Will - 2021
Rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. were opportunities to redress disparities that surfaced during the pandemic. Initial eligibility criteria, however, neglected geographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic considerations. Marginalized populations may have faced barriers to then-scarce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313632
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of … birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … a below- to an above-median birth weight location leads to a 19-gram increase in average birth weight. These causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians
Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and patient demand. The model is identified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421174
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
Wehby, George - 2016
associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986772