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US Birth Weight Trends for First Births, 1850s–2008
Source: Author’s calculations from the records of the Philadelphia Almshouse (Goldin and Margo 1989), of New York Lying-In (Costa 1998), Johns Hopkins (Costa 2004), and NCHS’s 1968, 1978, 1998, and 2008 Vital Statistics Natality Data.
