Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970

William Collins and Melissa Thomasson (thomasma@muohio.edu)

No 201, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers from Vanderbilt University Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in infant mortality rates between 1920 and 1945, but a smaller portion thereafter. We then re-examine the post-war period in light of trends in birth weight, maternal characteristics, smoking, air pollution, breast-feeding, insurance, and hospital births.

Keywords: infant mortality; health; race (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J15 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-02
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