Title

Saving Babies? Revisiting The Effect Of Very Low Birth Weight Classification

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). © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

11-1-2011

Publication Title

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volume

126

Issue

4

Number of Pages

2117-2123

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr042

Socpus ID

84857412319 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84857412319

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