TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grossman,Michael
AU  - Joyce,Theodore J.
TI  - Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birthweight Production Functions in New York City
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2746
PY  - 1991
Y2  - January 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2746
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2746.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Grossman
Ph.D. Program in Economics
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7959
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu

Theodore J. Joyce
Baruch College & Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave, 5th Fl
New York, NY 10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7960
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: theodore.joyce@baruch.cuny.edu
AB  - This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self selection in the resolution of pregnancies as live births or induced abortions and in the use of prenatal medical care services. We also incorporate the decision of a pregnant woman to give birth or obtain an abortion into economic models of fertility control and use information conveyed by this decision to refine estimates of infant health production functions and demand functions for prenatal medical care.
ER  -