Saving Babies? Revisiting the effect of very low birth weight classification

    Authors

    A. I. Barreca; M. Guldi; J. M. Lindo;G. R. Waddell

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Q. J. Econ.

    Keywords

    Economics

    Abstract

    We reconsider the effect of very low birth weight classification on infant mortality. We demonstrate that the estimates are highly sensitive to the exclusion of observations in the immediate vicinity of the 1,500-g threshold, weakening the confidence in the results originally reported in Almond, Doyle, Kowalski, and Williams (2010).

    Journal Title

    Quarterly Journal of Economics

    Volume

    126

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2117

    Last Page

    2123

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000297870200012

    ISSN

    0033-5533

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