First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
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Oxford: MIT Press
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English
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Oxford: MIT Press
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In the 1980s and 1990s many states adopted tort reforms. It has been argued that these reforms have reduced the practice of defensive medicine arising from excess tort liability. We find that this does not appear to be true for a large and important class of cases-childbirth in the United States. Using data from national vital statistics natality f...
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First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_210981779
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_210981779
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0033-5533
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1531-4650
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10.1162/qjec.2008.123.2.795
