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SUBMITTER: Homan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635835 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Social science & medicine (1982) 20170414
Although gender inequality has been recognized as a crucial factor influencing population health in the developing world, research has not yet thoroughly documented the role it may play in shaping U.S. infant mortality rates (IMRs). This study uses administrative data with fixed-effects and random-effects models to (1) investigate the relationship between political gender inequality in state legislatures and state infant mortality rates in the United States from 1990 to 2012, and (2) project the ...[more]