| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w27775
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 27775
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| Perinatal Health among 1 Million Chinese-Americans |
| Douglas Almond; Yi Cheng
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| 发表日期 | 2020-09-07
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The literature on "missing girls" suggests a net preference for sons both in China and among Chinese immigrants to the West. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that newborn Chinese-American girls are treated more intensively in US hospitals: they are kept longer following delivery, have more medical procedures performed, and have more hospital charges than predicted (by the non-Chinese gender difference). What might explain more aggressive medical treatment? We posit that hospitals are responding to worse health at birth of Chinese-American girls. We document higher rates of low birth weight, congenital anomalies, maternal hypertension, and lower APGAR scores among Chinese Americans girls – outcomes recorded prior to intensive neonatal medical care and relative to the non-Chinese gender gap. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to find that son preference may also compromise "survivor" health at birth. On net, compromised newborn health seems to outweigh the benefit of more aggressive neonatal hospital care for girls. Relative to non-Chinese gender differences, death on the first day of life and in the post-neonatal period is more common among Chinese-American girls, i.e. later than sex selection is typically believed to occur. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27775
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585446
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Douglas Almond,Yi Cheng. Perinatal Health among 1 Million Chinese-Americans. 2020.
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