Mind the information gap: fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan

The exogenous decline in the Taiwanese fertility rate and the use of detailed medical information and demographic attributes of pregnant women allowed us to avoid the endogeneity problem that threatened the validity of prior research. They also provide more accurate estimates of PID. JEL Classification: I10, I19, C23, C25 </AbstractSection> Copyright Ma et al; licensee Springer. 2011

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Ma, Ke-Zong ; Norton, Edward ; Lee, Shoou-Yih
Published in:	Health Economics Review. - Springer. - Vol. 1.2011, 1, p. 1-15
Publisher:	Springer
Subject:	information \| physician inducement \| cesarean delivery \| fertility \| tocolysis

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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