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

• Tác giả: Norbert Schady
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 614.13 Forensic toxicology
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 310821
• Chủ đề: 1. Business Fluctuations; 2. Cycles E320; 3. Economic Development: Human Resources; 4. Health Production I120; 5. Human Development

Tóm tắt

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.