ArticleSSM - population health2020
Rising inequality of infant health in the U.S.
Article in SSM - population health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Prediction of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease Risk in U.S. Births.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Article
- The magnitude and population burden of educational inequalities in adverse birth outcomes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The first 1000 days: the price of inequalities in high and middle-income countries.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Revealed Comparative Disadvantage of Infants: Exposure to NAFTA and Birth Outcomes.Journal of international economics · 2025Article
- Did the Affordable Care Act Promote Racial Equity in Pregnancy-Related Health? A Scoping Review.Population health management · 2024Article
- Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995-2020.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2024Article
- State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2023Article
- Determinants of birthweight in rural Sri Lanka; a cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Mobile phones and infant health at birth.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health.Demography · 2022Article
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Abstract
Has infant health inequality narrowed or grown in recent decades? Inequality may have narrowed due to expanded medical insurance coverage and greater knowledge about fetal health. However, greater income inequality may have reduced health for births to the most economically disadvantaged mothers, leading to growing infant health inequality. We use administrative birth certificate data for over 22 million births to examine trends in inequality of infant health from 1989 to 2018 in the U.S. This period allows us to consider how contextual factors - such as passage of the Affordable Care Act, changing demographics, the Great Recession, or delayed impacts of rising income inequality - may have altered infant health inequality. We assess gaps in infant health by maternal race, marital status, and education. Following previous research, we also examine gaps between the most economically advantaged mothers - married, white mothers with a college degree - and the most economically disadvantaged mothers - single, Black mothers without a high school degree. Results reveal that inequality of infant health has increased since 2010.
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