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

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2117-2123

  Barreca, Alan I ^a,b,c,d   Guldi, Melanie ^a,b,c,d   Lindo, Jason M ^a,b,c,d   Waddell, Glen R ^a,b,c,d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; WEIGHT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN;

PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 84857412319     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr042     Document Type: Article

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