birthweight_smoking: Birthweight Smoking Data Set
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The datafile Birthweight_Smoking is from the 1989 linked National Natality-Mortality Detail files, which contains a census of infant births and deaths.

1	birthweight_smoking

The file contains 3,000 observations on the variables described below:

birthweight: birth weight of infant (in grams)
smoker: indicator equal to one if the mother smoked during pregnancy and zero, otherwise
age: age of Mother
educ: years of educational attainment by Mother (more than 16 years coded as 17)
unmarried: indicator = 1 if mother is unmarried
alcohol: indicator = 1 if mother drank alcohol during pregnancy
drinks: number of drinks per week
tripre1: indicator = 1 if 1st prenatal care visit in 1st trimester
tripre2: indicator = 1 if 1st prenatal care visit in 2nd trimester
tripre3: indicator = 1 if 1st prenatal care visit in 3rd trimester
tripre0: indicator = 1 if no prenatal visits
nprevisit: total number of prenatal visits

These data were provided by Porfessor Douglas Almond, Kenneth Chay, and David Lee and area subset of the data used in their paper “The Costs of Low Birth Weight,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005, 120(3): 1031-1083.

Stock and Watson's Introduction to Econometrics, 3rd Edition. See https://wps.pearsoned.com/wps/media/objects/11422/11696965/data3eu/Birthweight_Smoking_Description.pdf

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