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

Alan Barreca; Melanie Guldi; J. M. Lindo; G. R. Waddell

doi:10.1093/qje/qjr042

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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 126 No. 4 2011

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

Alan Barreca¹; Melanie Guldi; J. M. Lindo²; G. R. Waddell

¹ Tulane University · ² Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

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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).

DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr042
Volume: 126
Issue: 4
Pages: 2117-2123
Language: en
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Saving Babies? Revisiting the effect of very low birth weight classification

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