Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States than in Europe?
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Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States Than in Europe?
The US has higher infant mortality than peer countries. In this paper, we combine micro-data from the US with similar data from four European countries to investigate this US infant mortality disadvantage. The US disadvantage persists after adjusting for potential di erential reporting of births near the threshold of viability. While the importance of birth weight varies across comparison count...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140224