Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self-selection in the resolution of pregnancies as live births or induced abortions and in t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of political economy 1990-10, Vol.98 (5), p.983-1007
Hauptverfasser:	Grossman, Michael, Joyce, Theodore J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abortion Birth weight Birthrate Coefficients Contraception Economic theory Endowments Health care Health Care (birth weight) Induced abortion Infants New York City Political economy Pregnancy Prenatal care Prenatal development Production functions
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