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Wealth doesn’t ease racial gap in maternal, infant health, according to new research by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and StanfordHealthPolicy experts, Petra Persson & Maya Rossin-Slater. futurity.org/black-mothers-… via Futurity News

New data shows childbirth is more dangerous for: - the richest Black women than the poorest white women - the richest Californian women than the poorest Swedish women Speaks volumes about how we value pregnant people and the depths of structural racism in American society

Very interesting analysis of infant mortality by race and income: Wealthy moms have higher-risk babies (partly because of fertility treatments and twins), but affluence is protective for white moms and less so for black moms: nytimes.com/interactive/20… by Claire Cain Miller & colleagues

Research by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research/Stanford University's Petra Persson + Maya Rossin-Slater showing Black mothers + infants fare worse than the poorest white mothers and infants is featured on the The New York Times homepage today. Story by Claire Cain Miller Sarah Kliff Larry Buchanan Shannon Lin here ▶️ nyti.ms/3RXqtxJ

Targeting precision medicine: Evidence from prenatal screening Peter Conner Karolinska Institutet, Liran Einav Stanford University, Amy Finkelstein MIT Sloan School of Management, Petra Persson Stanford University, Heidi Williams Stanford University ow.ly/rBvk50MN4yz

Thank you to EconoFactOrg for interviewing Petra Persson and me on the important topic of maternal health. Podcast link below. Much of the discussion is based on our joint work w/ Sarah Miller, Laura Wherry, Kate Kennedy-Moulton & Gloria Aldana.

Tack EconoFactOrg för att ni bjöd in Maya Rossin-Slater och mig till en diskussion om mödradödlighet i podden länkad nedan. Stora delar av diskussionen baseras på vår forskning tillsammans med Sarah Miller, Laura Wherry, Kate Kennedy-Moulton och Gloria Aldana.

Unwanted Epidurals, Untreated Pain: Black Women Tell Their Birth Stories. The New York Times cites landmark research by SHP's Maya Rossin-Slater and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Petra Persson that shows regardless of income or education, Black mothers have worse birth outcomes. nytimes.com/2023/05/06/ups…

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is 3-4x that of comparably wealthy countries; it is also much higher for Black women than White women, and for poor women than for rich women. SIEPR's Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater weigh in via EconoFactOrg: bit.ly/45f1g8j

Thank you for a terrific conference! Christopher A. Neilson Costas Meghir

Olympian Tori Bowie dies from complications of childbirth, another heartbreaking example of the disproportionate burden of maternal mortality borne by black women in US. Proof in data: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research affiliates Petra Persson & Maya Rossin-Slater bit.ly/3oYL5Mb usatoday.com/story/sports/o…

Fantastic news! Not only is Maya's work incredibly important, but she also is an amazing colleague, co-author, and the best friend you can wish for! 🥳🥳🥳 Maya Rossin-Slater

Huge congrats to @AlessandraVoena !!🎉

This is amazing, so happy to see Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne get this well-deserved award!

(1) The Upshot's incredible reporting on our work w/IRS income data and birth records showing stark racial disparities in maternal/infant health across all income levels w/Kate Kennedy-Moulton Maya Rossin-Slater Petra Persson Sarah Miller & Gloria Aldana: nytimes.com/interactive/20… (2/3)

Congratulations to Professor Per Strömberg, elected new Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, known for awarding the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel! hhs.se/en/about-us/ne…

Just back from ☀️ Alicante 🇪🇸 ! Had a great time visiting Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico UA & presenting “The #Menopause #Penalty” (w/ Rita Ginja Petra Persson @bartonwillage) - such an engaged audience tx for all the feedback! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Thanks for the invite Teresa Molina-Millán🙏🏻

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women who inspire you the most? #IWD2024

Infertility causes a deterioration of mental health and increases divorce, with no “protective” effects on earnings; yet willingness to pay for IVF without insurance is relatively low, from Sarah Bögl, Jasmin Moshfegh, Petra Persson, and Maria Polyakova nber.org/papers/w32445

Thank you Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research StanfordHealthPolicy for this very nice write-up about our paper on assisted reproductive technologies!