Daniel A. Powers
W. Parker Frisbie
Robert Hummer
Starling G. Pullum
Patricio Solis

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol14/10/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2006.14.10

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality for non-Hispanic white, black, and Mexican-American females in the U.S. (1995-1998). Proportional hazard models with age-varying effects of continuous birth outcome measures reveal larger birth outcome effects on neonatal mortality, smaller effects on postneonatal mortality, and moderate age-variation within the neonatal period. Unlike static models, age-varying effect models of early and late gestational age and small birth weight statistically adjust for the black neonatal mortality disadvantage relative to whites.

Author's affiliation
Daniel A. Powers
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
W. Parker Frisbie
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Robert Hummer
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Starling G. Pullum
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Patricio Solis
Colegio de Mexico, Mexico

Keywords
birth outcomes, infant and child mortality, measurements, nonproportional effects, race/ethnic differences, statistical models

Word count (Main text)
6919

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