Mind the information gap: fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan

Ke-Zong Ma (), Edward Norton and Shoou-Yih Lee ()

Health Economics Review, 2011, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: The exogenous decline in the Taiwanese fertility rate and the use of detailed medical information and demographic attributes of pregnant women allowed us to avoid the endogeneity problem that threatened the validity of prior research. They also provide more accurate estimates of PID. JEL Classification: I10, I19, C23, C25 Copyright Ma et al; licensee Springer. 2011

Keywords: information; physician inducement; cesarean delivery; fertility; tocolysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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