Arbeitspapier
The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
In 1966, Southern hospitals were barred from participating in Medicare unless they discontinued their long-standing practice of racial segregation. Using data from five Deep South states and exploiting county-level variation in Medicare certification dates, we find that gaining access to an ostensibly integrated hospital had no effect on the Black-White infant mortality gap, although it may have discouraged small numbers of Black mothers from giving birth at home attended by a midwife. These results are consistent with descriptions of the federal hospital desegregation campaign as producing only cosmetic changes and illustrate the limits of anti-discrimination policies imposed upon reluctant actors.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13920
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- Thema
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hospital desegregation
black infant mortality
Medicare
civil rights
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Anderson, D. Mark
Charles, Kerwin Kofi
Rees, Daniel I.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Anderson, D. Mark
- Charles, Kerwin Kofi
- Rees, Daniel I.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020
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