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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| Language: | EN |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4922 |
| Summary: | 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 associated with higher mortality. |
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