Table 6.

Cross country differences in postneonatal and neonatal mortality, by group

Panel A: Postneonatal mortality
	(1)		(2)
	US versus Austria		US versus Finland
United States	1.357 (0.046)	***	0.920 (0.064)	***
advantaged	−0.093 (0.144)		−0.296 (0.129)	**
United States × advantaged	−1.146 (0.145)	***	−0.941 (0.130)	***
# of observations	23,505,784		23,347,108
high SES, US vs. Europe	0.126		0.853

Panel B: Neonatal mortality
	(1)		(2)
	US versus Austria		US versus Finland
United States	0.024 (0.068)		−0.149 (0.083)	*
advantaged	−0.259 (0.218)		−0.080 (0.192)
United States × advantaged	0.063 (0.219)		−0.116 (0.193)
# of observations	23,565,160		23,406,026
high SES, US vs. Europe	0.675		0.128

Notes: This table shows differences across countries in mortality by advantaged versus disadvantaged group. The regressions adjust for 500-gram birth weight category cells. The regression results are conditional on surviving to 1 month of age. “Advantaged” is as defined in the text (mothers who are high education/occupation, married and white (in the US) or non-immigrant (in Austria)). Coefficients are in units of 1000 deaths: a coefficient of 1 indicates an increase of 1 death in 1000 births. Robust standard errors in parentheses.

^***significant at 1% level

^**significant at 5% level

^*significant at 10% level.

Data for all countries cover 2000-2005; as described in the text, the sample is limited to singleton births at ≥22 weeks of gestation and ≥500 grams with no missing covariates. The last row in each panel reports the p-value from a test for equality between the advantaged group in the US relative to the advantaged group in the comparison country.