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Maternal and Child Health Journal
Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal 2/2008

01-03-2008

Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Birthweight: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

Authors: Paula Veloso da Veiga, Ronald P. Wilder

Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal | Issue 2/2008

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Abstract

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, by race. 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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Metadata
Title
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Birthweight: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
Authors
Paula Veloso da Veiga
Ronald P. Wilder
Publication date
01-03-2008
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Maternal and Child Health Journal / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 1092-7875
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6628
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-007-0238-8

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