@kleib323 @tom_paine1737 @mtsw But IMR was astonishingly high in the early 20th C. to begin with (tho not as high as people used to think, Duke has a cool study showing unregistered births meant the rate was lower). Have to look at the relative risk when
@evanrobertsnz @VincentGeloso @leah_boustan @straightedge @TrevonDLogan I have a new paper in Demography with @K_A_Eriksson and @thomassonecon showing big regional/race differences in birth registrations and the overcount in IMR. We didn’t find much direct
RT @Miami_Econ: Professors Melissa Thomasson and Greg Niemesh, along with their co-author, Katherine Eriksson, had a paper entitled "Revisi…
Professors Melissa Thomasson and Greg Niemesh, along with their co-author, Katherine Eriksson, had a paper entitled "Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States" published in Demography. https://t.co/fBUxUPZhdk @thomasso