Birth weights and the geography of poverty
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Katherine O'Regan is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley. Michael Wiseman is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and at the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A more detailed discussion of this subject can be found in O'Regan and Wiseman, "Using Birth Weights to Chart the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty," Urban Geography, forthcoming.
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