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Using data from official hospital abstracts on deliveries occurred in Sardinia during the years 2010 and 2011, we implemented an Augmented Inverse Probability Weighted (AIPW) model in order to study the effect of increased prenatal care during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Results showed that moderate levels of prenatal care, as measured by the number of sonograms, increase the Apgar score of the infant, while a higher number of sonograms does not have any additional marginal effect on the outcome.
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The authors would like to thank Regione Autonoma della Sardegna for providing the anonymized data used in the analysis.
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Sironi, E., Cannas, M., Mola, F. (2018). Estimating the Effect of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes. In: Mola, F., Conversano, C., Vichi, M. (eds) Classification, (Big) Data Analysis and Statistical Learning. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55708-3_14
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