County-level hurricane exposure and birth rates: application of difference-in-differences analysis for confounding control

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Grabich, Shannon C ^a   Robinson, Whitney R ^a   Engel, Stephanie M ^a   Konrad, Charles E ^b   Richardson, David B ^a   Horney, Jennifer A ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth rates; Difference in difference; Disaster; Fixed effect regression; General linear models; Hurricane

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFERENCE IN DIFFERENCES ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); HURRICANE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84951751986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12982-015-0042-7     Document Type: Article

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