Prenatal care demand and birthweight production of black mothers.

摘要: Infant mortality in the United States has declined by one-half past 20 years for both blacks and whites, though black infant rate steadily remained twice white rate, (Helen Wallace, 1994). The incidence of low birthweight, unfortunately, almost unchanged over same time period, again with being (Wallace, These two trends taken together suggest that reduced is due entirely to medical advances which allow more small, weak, sick newborns survive. This paper investigates health newborns, using approach Mark Rosenzweig Paul Schultz, (1982, 1983) (see also Eugene Lewit, 1983). Their work extended incorporating number visits a visitsXdelay interaction term into prenatal care demand. goal obtain consistent estimates impact on birthweight. can then be used design interventions aimed at reducing