Fetal health is an important consideration in policy formation. Unfortunately, a complete
census of fetal deaths, an important measure of overall fetal health, is infeasible, and …

Background The ratio of male to female live births (ie the sex ratio) reportedly falls when
populations suffer rare and extreme ambient stressors such as the collapse of national …

Objectives—This report presents 2005 fetal and perinatal mor tality data by a variety of
characteristics, including maternal age, marital status, race, Hispanic origin, and state of …

This chapter contains the first infant health production functions that simultaneously consider
the effects of a variety of inputs on race-specific neonatal mortality rates. These inputs …

The first part of the lecture will review some of the evidence about the determinants of health
at birth. I argue that individuals may start with very different endowments at birth because of …

This study explores the impact of environmental regulations in China on infant mortality. In
1998, the Chinese government imposed stringent air pollution regulations, in one of the first …

By Janet Currie and Johannes F. Schmieder* to see if existing environmental releases have
detectable negative effects for human health. This study uses data from the EPA's Toxics …

Background The expected ratio of male to female births is generally believed to be 1.05,
also described as the male proportion of 0.515. Objectives We describe trends in sex ratio at …

We examine the impact of three “criteria” air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the
1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates …

Background Neonatal mortality rates among black infants are lower than neonatal mortality
rates among white infants at birth weights< 3000 g, whereas white infants have a survival …