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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:36:51am WEST
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B12: Fertility, Urban Health, and Work-Life Balance Location: Room 113 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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Ultrasound Timing Standardization, health effects, and long-term outcomes Uppsala University, Sweden Accurate gestational dating is central to obstetric decision-making: it determines preand post-term classification, guides induction at clinical thresholds, and can shape important perinatal health outcomes for human capital formation. This paper examines Sweden’s implementation of ultrasound-based gestational dating standardization (UTS) and whether a technology intended to improve pregnancy dating inadvertently introduced sex-specific measurement error that shifted management at the post-term cutoff. The mechanism is straightforward: fetal-size reference charts used for ultrasound dating are typically sexneutral, but female fetuses are, on average, slightly smaller at a given actual gestational age. Estimating the causal effect of being dated by UTS is challenging because early ultrasound usage was not randomly assigned. I address this with an instrumental-variables strategy that exploits hospital-level practice intensity using the Swedish Medical Birth Register linked to administrative records. I study immediate neonatal outcomes, delivery practices, and longer-run humancapital proxies measured through standardized school grades.
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