When I was a typically paranoid new parent, I researched the odds of both at birth and after birth deaths. I was very surprised by the huge racial differences -

When I was a typically paranoid new parent, I researched the odds of both at birth and after birth deaths. I was very surprised by the huge racial differences - a black infant is more than twice as likely to die during the first year than a white or Hispanic infant. US statistics: http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-mortality-rate-by-race-ethnicity/ http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-mortality-rate-b... However, the parent paper's abstract says that the primary difference is economic - yet US hispanics have identical infant death rates to white Americans. Could anyone with access to the paper see if the authors actually for this a stronger correlation than race?