Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr.
NBER Working Paper No. 13877
Issued in March 2008
---- Abridged Abstract -----
"A newborn delivered at 12:05 a.m. will have an extra night of reimbursable care compared to an infant born minutes earlier... Furthermore, a law change in 1997 entitled newborns to a minimum of 2 days in care... The results suggest that for uncomplicated births, longer hospitals stays incur substantial costs without apparent health benefits".
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