A new quantile treatment effect model for studying smoking effect on birth weight during Mother's pregnancy

This paper proposes a new quantile regression model to characterize the heterogeneity for distributional effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight across different the mother's age. By imposing a parametric restriction on the quantile functions of the potential outcome...

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Main Authors: Shengfang Tang, Zongwu Cai, Ying Fang, Ming Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-09-01
Series:Journal of Management Science and Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096232021000421