Relatively high birth rates among black adolescents andunmarried women as well as inadequate access to medical care areconsidered primary reasons why the black neonatal mortality rateis almost double that of whites. Using household productiontheory, this paper examines the determinants of input...

This paper contains the first infant health production functions that simultaneously consider the effects of a variety of inputs on race-specific neonatal mortality rates. These inputs include the use of prenatal care, neonatal intensive care, abortion, Federally subsidized organized family...

This paper explores the determinants of birthweight-specific neonatal mortality rates across States in the U.S. in 1980. We are able to explore the interactions between the determinants and birthweight because of the new data available through the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS)....