Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries

We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently ass...

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Main Authors: Schady, Norbert, Smitz, Marc-Francois
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4922