| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22456 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22456 |
| The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality | |
| D. Mark Anderson; Ryan Brown; Kerwin Kofi Charles; Daniel I. Rees | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-08-01 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details of midwifery laws introduced during the period 1900-1940, and using a rich data set that we assembled from primary sources, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates provide the first econometric evidence of which we are aware on the relationship between licensure and consumer safety, and are directly relevant to ongoing policy debates both in the United States and in the developing world surrounding the merits of licensing midwives. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22456 |
| 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/580130 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | D. Mark Anderson,Ryan Brown,Kerwin Kofi Charles,et al. The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality. 2016. |
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