The impact of the new deal on black and white infant mortality in the South
The impact of the new deal on black and white infant mortality in the South
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DOI：
10.1006/exeh.2000.0759
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Kantor, S
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作者：
Fishback, PV;Haines, MR;Kantor, S
新政导致联邦政府史无前例地参与提供救济。尽管“新政”的官员辩称，他们在提供参与项目的机会时力求一视同仁，但许多学者认为，黑人获得的福利比白人少。检验新政惠及低收入家庭的有效性的一种方法是检查其对婴儿死亡率的影响。在本文中，我们使用了20世纪30年代三个子时期的县级数据来检验几个新政支出计划与南方黑人和白人婴儿死亡率之间的关系。一些新政项目有助于降低婴儿死亡率，但其他因素可能是导致婴儿死亡率长期下降的重要因素。与此同时，新政的一些项目似乎没有歧视，甚至对黑人比白人更有利，而另一些项目似乎产生了有利于白人的不同影响。(C) 2001学术出版社。
The New Deal led to unprecedented involvement by the Federal government in the provision of relief. Although New Deal officials argued that they sought to be nondiscriminatory in providing access to programs, various scholars have suggested that blacks received fewer benefits than whites. One method for testing the effectiveness of the New Deal at reaching households with low incomes is to examine its impact on infant mortality. In this paper we use county-level data from three subperiods during the 1930s to examine the relationship between several New Deal spending programs and black and white infant mortality in the South. Some New Deal programs contributed to a reduction in infant mortality, but other factors may have been strong contributors to a long-term secular decline in infant mortality. Meanwhile, some of the New Deal programs appear to have been nondiscriminatory or even more beneficial for blacks than for whites, while others appear to have had differential effects that favored whites. (C) 2001 Academic Press.