Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States Than in Europe?

Alice Chen, Emily Oster and Heidi Williams ()

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 89-124

Abstract: The United States has higher infant mortality than peer countries. In this paper, we combine microdata from the United States with similar data from four European countries to investigate this US infant mortality disadvantage. The US disadvantage persists after adjusting for potential differential reporting of births near the threshold of viability. While the importance of birth weight varies across comparison countries, relative to all comparison countries the United States has similar neonatal (

JEL-codes: I12 I14 I32 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140224
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