Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - In: Social Science & Medicine 65 (2007) 7, pp. 1458-1465
We estimate the impact of annual obstetricians and gynecologists' conferences on births in Australia and the United States. In both countries, the number of births drops by 2-4 percent during the days on which these conferences are held. Since it is unlikely that parents take these conferences...