| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17434 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17434 |
| Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates | |
| Nicholas J. Sanders; Charles F. Stoecker | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-09-15 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Fetal health is an important consideration in the formation of health-based policy. However, a complete census of true fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal health and apply it to examine the effects of air quality on fetal health. Males are more vulnerable to side effects of maternal stress in utero, and thus are more likely to suffer fetal death due to pollution exposure. We demonstrate this metric in the context of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 (CAAA) which provide a source of exogenous variation in county-level ambient total suspended particulate matter (TSPs). We find that a standard deviation increase in annual average TSPs (approximately 35 μg/m³) decreases the percentage of live births that are male by 3.1 percentage points. We then explore the use of observed differences in neonatal and one-year mortality rates across genders in response to pollution exposure as a metric to estimate total fetal losses in utero. These calculations suggest the pollution reductions from the CAAA prevented approximately 21,000-134,000 fetal deaths in 1972. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17434 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575108 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nicholas J. Sanders,Charles F. Stoecker. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates. 2011. |
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| w17434.pdf（367KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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