The datafile Birthweight_Smoking is from the 1989 linked National Natality-Mortality Detail files, which contains a census of infant births and deaths.
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Description
The datafile Birthweight_Smoking is from the 1989 linked National Natality-Mortality Detail files, which contains a census of infant births and deaths. The data in bw_smoking.data are for births in Pennsylvania in 1989.
These data were provided by Porfessor Douglas Almond, Kenneth Chay, and David Lee and are
a subset of the data used in their paper “The Costs of Low Birth Weight,” Quarterly Journal of
Economics
