In the latest episode of the Justice Insights podcast by the Center for Justice Research (CJR) at Texas Southern University, researchers from CJR and Baylor College of Medicine examine how racialized economic segregation influences stillbirth disparities in Houston. Using census tract-level data and the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE), the episode reveals that neighborhood privilege lowers stillbirth risk for White mothers but not for mothers of color. Additionally, it highlights how factors like low maternal education, obesity, and residential segregation only partially explain the racial gap, pointing to deeper systemic disparities in maternal health.

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