Emily Oster on Infant Mortality

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🗓️ 24 November 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high relative to the rest of the world, given high income levels in the United States. The conversation explores the roles of measurement and definition along with culture to understand the causes of infant mortality in the United States and how it might be improved.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is maladycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.0	Today is November 11, 2014, and my guest is Emily Oster of the University of Chicago's
0:37.8	Booth School of Business.
0:39.2	Emily, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:40.9	Thank you very much.
0:43.0	Our topic for today is a paper you've co-authored with Alice Chan and Heidi Williams on Infant
0:47.8	Mortality.
0:48.8	In particular, you're looking at why the United States has higher rates of infant mortality
0:54.4	than many European countries.
0:57.8	I thought it would be interesting to talk about this particular issue, which I'm very
1:01.0	interested in in itself.
1:04.1	I'm also more interested in the general question of how we use health data to evaluate public
1:10.1	policy and to think about ways to make things better.
1:12.5	I hope we'll get into those issues as well in today's episode.
1:17.3	Let's start with what is to be explained.
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