Race/Ethnic differences and age-variation in the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality in the U.S

Daniel Powers, W. Parker Frisbie, Robert A. Hummer, Starling G. Pullum and Patricio Solis
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W. Parker Frisbie: University of Texas at Austin
Robert A. Hummer: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Starling G. Pullum: University of Texas at Austin
Patricio Solis: El Colegio de México

Demographic Research, 2006, vol. 14, issue 10, 179-216

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality for non-Hispanic white, black, and Mexican-American females in the U.S. (1995-1998). Proportional hazard models with age-varying effects of continuous birth outcome measures reveal larger birth outcome effects on neonatal mortality, smaller effects on postneonatal mortality, and moderate age-variation within the neonatal period. Unlike static models, age-varying effect models of early and late gestational age and small birth weight statistically adjust for the black neonatal mortality disadvantage relative to whites.

Keywords: infant and child mortality; measurements; statistical models; birth outcomes; racial/ethnic differences; nonproportional effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2006.14.10

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