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Why babies die in D.C., part II

SANDERS KORENMAN and NICHOLAS EBERSTADT

IN THE SPRING 1994 ISSUE of The Public Interest (Number 115), Nicholas Eberstadt argued that the high rate of low birth-weight births and infant mortality among African Americans in Washington, D.C., is due mainly to high rates of illegitimacy and other parental behaviors.

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