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Article: An analysis of infant mortality rates in the U.S.(Anthology)
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- Atlantic Economic Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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For individual groups and nations, there is abundant evidence of a strong quantitative association between measures of economic status and a variety of health outcomes, such as mortality and morbidity [J.P. Smith, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999]. When the reference group is a U.S. state, economic resources and health risk behaviors, such as smoking, are no less important predictors of infant mortality rates (defined as the number of deaths in the first year of life compared with the number of live births).
A regression of 50 statewide average infant mortality rates (IMR) [Health, United States, 2002, Table 24] against the same three-year average ...