Why is health related to socioeconomic status?
Subtitle: the case of pregnancy and low birth weight
By: Ellen Meara.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 8231; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 8231.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Health -- Sociological aspects -- United States.; Health behavior -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Pregnant women -- Tobacco use -- United States.; Social status -- Health aspects -- United States.
Notes: JEL no. I1.

"April 2001."

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