THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH

This paper studies the effectiveness of prenatal care on low-income women’s birth outcomes. We analyze all births between 1995 and 2011 in Uruguay’s largest public maternity ward. We use mother-specific first differences to circumvent biases due to time-invariant, unobserved hete...

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Autores principales: Balsa,Ana Inés, Triunfo,Patricia
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía. 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0719-043320150002000022016-01-08THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACHBalsa,Ana InésTriunfo,Patricia Prenatal care low birth weight low-income populations first differences panel data This paper studies the effectiveness of prenatal care on low-income women’s birth outcomes. We analyze all births between 1995 and 2011 in Uruguay’s largest public maternity ward. We use mother-specific first differences to circumvent biases due to time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity and implement robustness checks that reduce concerns about time variant shocks and feedback effects. We find that adequate use of prenatal care, as defined by early initiation and at least 9 visits, decreases the probability of low birth weight by 6 percentage points and the probability of pre-term birth by 11 percentage points, and increases birth weight by 149 grams.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.Latin american journal of economics v.52 n.2 20152015-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-04332015000200002en10.7764/LAJE.52.2.149
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topic Prenatal care
low birth weight
low-income populations
first differences
panel data
spellingShingle Prenatal care
low birth weight
low-income populations
first differences
panel data
Balsa,Ana Inés
Triunfo,Patricia
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
description This paper studies the effectiveness of prenatal care on low-income women’s birth outcomes. We analyze all births between 1995 and 2011 in Uruguay’s largest public maternity ward. We use mother-specific first differences to circumvent biases due to time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity and implement robustness checks that reduce concerns about time variant shocks and feedback effects. We find that adequate use of prenatal care, as defined by early initiation and at least 9 visits, decreases the probability of low birth weight by 6 percentage points and the probability of pre-term birth by 11 percentage points, and increases birth weight by 149 grams.
author Balsa,Ana Inés
Triunfo,Patricia
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Triunfo,Patricia
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title THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
title_short THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
title_full THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
title_fullStr THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
title_full_unstemmed THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRENATAL CARE IN URUGUAY’S LOW-INCOME POPULATION: A PANEL DATA APPROACH
title_sort effectiveness of prenatal care in uruguay’s low-income population: a panel data approach
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
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