Child Mortality in the LDCs: The Role of Trade, Institutions and Environmental Quality

Faqin Lin, Nicholas Sim and Ngoc Pham
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Ngoc Pham: School of Economics, University of Adelaide

No 2015-15, School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers from University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy

Abstract: Child mortality is a persistent problem for the worldÂ’s least developed countries (LDCs). Given that trade fosters economic development, one plausible solution is to raise the low levels oftrade in the LDCs, but how effective this approach might be could depend on the quality of institutions. In this paper, we use a novel instrumental variable approach to estimate the effect that trade might have on child mortality in the LDCs. We find that trade does not lead to lower levels of child mortality. In fact, in autocratic LDCs, trade could even cause child mortality to increase as we find that pollution, which adversely affects health, may rise with trade.

Keywords: Child Mortality; Trade; Institutions; Environment; Least Developed Countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F18 I3 O1 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2015-06
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