What Matters More, Maternal Characteristics or Differential Returns for Having Them? Using Decomposition Analysis to Explain Black-White Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in the United States

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2019-12

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Ramraj, Chantel, Arjumand Siddiqi, Salimah El-Amin and Darrick Hamilton (2019). What Matters More, Maternal Characteristics or Differential Returns for Having Them? Using Decomposition Analysis to Explain Black-White Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in the United States. Race and Social Problems, 11(4). pp. 282–289. 10.1007/s12552-019-09268-x Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/27085.

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Salimah El-Amin

Assist Dir, Development & Diversity

I am a public health practitioner, researcher, and educator. My work examines the social determinants of health, structural racism, equity, diversity and inclusion, and health inequities. I serve as the Assistant Director of Equity in Research at the Center for Equity in Research at CTSI. I was previously employed with Duke University from 2015-2018 at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity as a Faculty Affiliate and Senior Researcher.


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