Table 3.

Exposure to Midwifery Laws at Birth and Later-Life Old-Age Mortality.

	Outcome: Log Mortality Rate
	(1)	(2)	(3)
Exposed to Midwifery Law at Birth	−.0256*** (.0094)	−.0348*** (.0104)	−.0246** (.0099)
Observations	6415	6415	6415
R-squared	.5687	.5782	.598
Mean DV	11.076	11.076	11.076
Birth-State FE	✓	✓	✓
Birth-Year FE	✓	✓	✓
Birth-State Controls	✓	✓	✓
Individual Controls	✓	✓	✓
Region-of-Birth by Birth-Year FE		✓	✓
Birth-State Trend			✓

Notes. Standard errors, clustered at birth-state-year level, are in parentheses. Individual controls include dummies for gender and race. Birth-state controls include share of homeowners, share of children, share of immigrants, share of different occupations, literacy rate, share of married people, female labor force participation rate, and average socioeconomic index. Regressions are weighted using average birth-state population.

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