Pediatrics | 2021
Evaluating Intersectionality of Policies and Populations
Abstract
Intersectionality embraces the overlap of identities, social positions, and social policies. We used this approach when evaluating tobacco control policies related to prenatal smoking and found a significant interaction between women’s race and ethnicity, education, and cigarette taxes. Low-educated white and Black women had the highest prevalence of smoking during pregnancy and were the most responsive to taxes, which in turn, improved birth outcomes. Examining the effects by women’s race and ethnicity or, separately, education would not have produced the same conclusions.