From: Jan Levine Thal Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:03 PM To: Seth Richards-Shubik Subject: Re: 2614Your JHR Submission   Hi Seth, We no longer put appendixes on line -- so do include them as part of the manuscript. Alternately, you can put them on your own website, but as a reader, I'd always like to have everything in one place. Could be just me. Fine to put your abstract and data description on the NBER website as long as you direct people to the JHR for the full article.Once the issue is online next spring, you can link them. Before that, indicate that it's forthcoming in Volume 47, Number 2 (Spring 2012). Make sure you indicate the url in place of our standard "Data used in this article are  available from . . ." Don't hesitate to ask any other questions. Jan LT JHR On 7/8/2011 3:36 PM, Seth Richards-Shubik wrote: Dear Jan,   We have completed the formatting of our article for JHR, and I have two questions as we prepare to send the final package over to you.   First, in our manuscript we intended for the appendix to be available only online and not part of the printed article.  Is this something the JHR website supports?  If not, it’s fine for the appendix to appear in print.  I just need to strike the “Not for Publication” from the section heading.   Second, we would like to make the data available via the NBER website.  This is in addition to being available from me during the specified period after publication.  In order to post the data on the NBER website, it would be helpful to include the abstract of our paper and some description of how the dataset was constructed.  Ideally I would use the appendix and excerpt four paragraphs from the data section of our paper.  But would this be acceptable, given that JHR will hold the copyright?   Thanks for considering this,   Seth   From: thal Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 11:25 AM To: sethrs Subject: 2614Your JHR Submission   June 4, 2011 Professor Seth Richards-Shubik Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III College 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Re: Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care Dear Professor Richards-Shubik: Journal of Human Resources Editor Bill Evans is happy to publish your above-referenced paper. He writes, "I look forward to seeing the paper in print Bill" Below is a link to a several-page document, "copyright," that begins with a copyright form and ends with two (2) sets of instructions for preparations of your manuscript for publication. Only the corresponding author can make the link work. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. These are required, not optional. FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY OR I WILL RETURN THE PAPER TO YOU FOR REFORMATTING. Here are key elements some authors miss: 1. DO NOT double space between paragraphs. Indent the first line of each paragraph. 2. Some software will not order the elements as I request. 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Check every reference for spelling of authors' names. I don't have time to do these checks, so if there are errors, they will be printed. 9. Prepare one (1) hard copy of the manuscript. 10. Fill out a copy of the copyright form for each author (first page of the document). You may send them as pdf attachments or mail them through the post. These may be sent separately from the manuscript Mail the hard copy to: Jan Levine Thal Journal of Human Resources Social Sciences Bldg - UW 1180 Observatory Drive Madison WI 53706 In addition to the JHR's checklist, I include a checklist required by our publisher, the UW Press. Please comply with this list as well. All preparation materials (copyright and instructions) are included in one continuous seven-page file. In case I have not been clear -- I will return manuscripts to authors who fail to render their final versions in JHR style. The entire manuscript included endnotes and references must be in our required style. Moreover, we will not publish any paper until we receive the copyright release form(s) for every author. Thank you for your contribution to the JHR. Sincerely, Jan Levine Thal Managing Editor Journal of Human Resources Social Science Building University of Wisconsin 1180 Observatory Drive Madison WI 53706 http://jhr.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?el=A7CO2yO6B1Cnh2G6A960TbEuQh3p8dHUIUi 9k2wZ Seth, David and Ellen I have a few additional comments you may want to consider before sending the final version of the paper into the journal. 1. The third prediction of the model (highlighted in the abstract and on page 7) is only true in a conditional state, when cause-specific mortality rates among prevalent diseases are higher in the majority race. It seems this conditioning statement should be worked into the text somehow. 2. Page 2, 2nd paragraph, I think it should be "at-risk infants". 3. Page 4, the derivatives in the text should be primes and not apostrophes. 4. Page 5 - you define groups as a and b and death rates per condition in a particular form. Then once you get to the regression (equation 8), you define death rates per condition as dw and db. I most respects, the empirical equations follow exactly with the theoretical model. You may want make these sections match as well. 5. Page 8, 4th line, "babies born with low birth weight." 6. Page 12, 13th line, Figure 2 7. Page 17, 2nd line, other potential correlates 8. Page 19, 6th line, "statistically significant" 9. Throughout the paper, you make use of mortality rates that hold the birth weight distribution constant. You may want to put together a footnote that explains in an equation form how this is achieved.