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Compensating Differentials and Self-Selection: An Application to Lawyers
In: Journal of political economy, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 411-428
ISSN: 1537-534X
Compensating Differentials and Self-Selection: An Application to Lawyers
In: Journal of political economy, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 411
ISSN: 0022-3808
Policy and Structural Change in the Health Care Industry
In: The Antitrust bulletin: the journal of American and foreign antitrust and trade regulation, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 949-974
ISSN: 1930-7969
Conversion from Nonprofit to For-Profit Legal Status: Why Does It Happen and Should Anyone Care?
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 215-233
ISSN: 0276-8739
Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 4159
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A Deadly Disparity: A Unified Assessment of the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Band 11, Heft 1
ISSN: 1935-1682
Abstract
We provide a unified assessment of a striking disparity in the United States: the differential rate at which white and black infants die. We separate the overall mortality gap into three temporal components—fitness at birth, conditional neonatal mortality, and conditional post-neonatal mortality—and quantify the extent to which each of the components can be predicted using a flexible reweighting method. Almost 90 percent of the overall mortality gap is due to differential fitness at birth, little of which can be predicted by racial differences in background characteristics. The remaining mortality gap stems from conditional post-neonatal mortality differences, nearly all of which can be predicted by background characteristics. The predictability of the mortality gap has declined substantially over the past two decades, largely because the mortality gap among extremely low-fitness infants is increasingly unrelated to background characteristics.