Moving to opportunity? Low birth weight outcomes among Southern-born Black mothers during the Great Migration

Cecilia Vu, Mariana C. Arcaya, Ichiro Kawachi and David R. Williams

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 328, issue C

Abstract: The Great Migration was a mass movement in the United States during the twentieth century of roughly eight million Black Southerners to the Northeast, Midwest, and West. Despite its significance, little is known about the health outcomes associated with this internal migration. This study assessed the relationship between migration and low birth weight among mothers born in the South between 1950 and 1969.

Keywords: Migration; Healthy migrant bias; Racism; Birth outcomes; Matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115983

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