Local Economic Growth and Infant Mortality

Andreas Kammerlander and Günther Schulze

No 9315, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we show that an increase in local economic activity significantly reduces the probability that the same mother loses a further child before its first birthday.

Keywords: local economic growth; child mortality; nighttime lights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dem, nep-dev, nep-geo, nep-gro, nep-hea and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9315.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Local economic growth and infant mortality (2023)
Working Paper: Local Economic Growth and Infant Mortality (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9315

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().