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ArticleThe quarterly journal of economics2018

TUSKEGEE AND THE HEALTH OF BLACK MEN.

Marcella Alsan, Marianne Wanamaker

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Article in The quarterly journal of economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 137 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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137citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
34.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 442 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marcella AlsanStanford University, NBER and BREAD.
Marianne WanamakerUniversity of Tennessee, NBER and IZA.
Bureau of Economic Analysis · USUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · US

Funding

CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTP30AG017253 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BHATTACHARYA, JAY · 1999 to 2019
$5.8M
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Health of Black MenR03MD011449 · NIMHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALSAN, MARCELLA · 2017 to 2018
$170k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG017253NIMHD NIH HHS R03 MD011449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID30505005
PMCPMC6258045
OpenAlexW2431687448

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