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Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

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This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self-selection in the resolution of pregnancies as live births or induced abortions and in the use of prenatal medical care services. We also incorporate the decision of a pregnant woman to give birth.

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Volume 98, Number 5, Part 1Oct., 1990Part 1

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https://doi.org/10.1086/261716

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Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

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