Evans, William N.; Garthwaite, Craig - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 3, pp. 635-649
We exploit increases in postpartum length of stay generated by legislative changes in the late 1990s to identify the impact of greater hospital care on the health of newborns. Using all births in California over the 1995–2000 period, two-stage least-square estimates show that increased...