| Journal: | Latin american journal of economics |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000463500 |
| ISSN: | 0719-0425 |
| Authors: | Balsa, Ana Inés1 Triunfo, Patricia2 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad de Montevideo, Montevideo. Uruguay 2Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Montevideo. Uruguay |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Season: | Nov |
| Volumen: | 52 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 149-184 |
| Country: | Chile |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | 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 |
| Disciplines: | Economía |
| Keyword: | Condiciones económicas, Uruguay, Cuidados prenatales, Bajos ingresos, Economía familiar, Datos de panel, Recién nacidos, Bajo peso |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
