The effectiveness of prenatal care in a low income population: a panel data approach

Balsa, Ana Inés; Triunfo, Patricia

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Balsa, Ana Inés
dc.contributor.author	Triunfo, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-01T19:06:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-01T19:06:20Z
dc.date.issued	2012	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1323
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyzes the impact of prenatal care on the likelihood of low birth weight and prematurity using panel data on births taking place between 1995 and 2008 in the largest maternity ward in Uruguay. The use of difference-Generalized Method of Moments estimation addresses biases due to time invariant unobserved heterogeneity and feedback effects from prior pregnancies. Our estimates are larger than those usually found for developed countries: an adequate use of prenatal care - as defined by the Kessner criterion - decreases the probability of low birth weight by half and the likelihood of a pre-term birth by 70%. Even when imposing less stringent requirements on the total number of prenatal controls, the improvements over birth outcomes are considerable. In addition to indicating the crucial role of prenatal care in the birth outcomes of low-income populations, our analysis highlights the importance of using econometric techniques that use the full distribution of pregnancies to estimate the effectiveness of prenatal care.	es
dc.format.extent	32 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía; UM_CEE_2012_04	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Prenatal care	es
dc.subject	Panel data	es
dc.subject	Difference GMM	es
dc.subject	Lowbirth weight	es
dc.subject	Low SES populations	es
dc.title	The effectiveness of prenatal care in a low income population: a panel data approach	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Balsa, Ana Inés. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Triunfo, Patricia. Universidad de la República, Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es