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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and birthweight - A propensity score matching approach

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Paula Veiga () (NIMA, Universidade do Minho)
Ronald P. Wilder () (University of South Carolina)
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There is accumulated evidence of the existence of a deleterious effect of smoking on birth outcomes. Understanding the effect of smoking on pregnancy is a critical issue because of the public policy implications for dissuading maternal smoking. We explore this issue by using the propensity score method and compare that with parametric estimators. First we estimate the treatment effect of smoking during pregnancy on different birth outcomes. Then, we extend the method to the case of the multi-treatment "intensity of smoking". The deleterious effect of smoking is found robust to the different estimation methods used.

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Paper provided by Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada (NIMA), Universidade do Minho in its series Working Papers with number 32.

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Date of creation: Jan 2006
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Keywords: Smoking; birth outcomes; causal effects; propensity score and matching;

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I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Hypothesis Testing
C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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