Whither weathering? The variable significance of age in Black-White low birth weight disparities

• Yazar: Nicholas D.E. Mark (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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This paper uses birth certificate data to provide novel estimates of the age-specific risk of a low birth weight birth (LBW, an infant born weighting <2500 g) for U.S.-born non-Hispanic Black and White mothers, and finds that patterns vary markedly over space and time. Notably, risk of an LBW bir...