Demographic analysis of the determinants of postneonatal mortality in the U.S.: Inferences from risk specific infant mortality.
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Title
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Demographic analysis of the determinants of postneonatal mortality in the U.S.: Inferences from risk specific infant mortality.
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Identifier
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AAI9020791
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identifier
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9020791
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Creator
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Myoung, Jae-Il.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael Grossman
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Economics, General
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Abstract
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This paper presents the first postneonatal mortality production functions and their reduced form equations on the basis of the economics of the family and household production. Its aim is to contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the variation in the race- and birthweight-specific postneonatal mortality rates among states in the U.S. in 1980. The results of a reduced-form model underscore such factors as neonatal intensive care availability, pediatrician availability, MIC project availability, poverty, the female unemployment rate, and the female labor force participation rate in explaining the variation in the postneonatal mortality rates regardless of race. Abortion availability which is an important determinant of neonatal mortality does not have any explanatory power, however. Likewise, this study fails to support the findings of earlier studies regarding the effects of schooling and the public programs such as family planning clinics, Medicaid, and WIC program on the infant mortality rate. The estimation of the production function corroborates the importance of prenatal care use especially for the normal-birthweight infants regardless of race. The use of pediatrician services also exerts a negative impact. Of the public program inputs considered, the use measure of AFDC support for teenagers turns out to affect the survival prospects greatly in an adverse manner.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
