Measuring the Child Mortality Impact of Official Aid for Fighting Infectious Diseases, 2000-2010

Roberto Burguet and Marcelo Soto

No 616, Working Papers from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Aid for fighting infectious and parasitic diseases has had a statistically significant role in the under-five mortality reduction in the last decade. Point estimates indicate a country average reduction of 1.4 deaths per thousand under fives live-born attributable to aid at its average level in 2000-2010. The effect would be an average drop of 3.3 in the under-five mortality rate at the aid levels of 2010. By components, a dollar per capita spent in fighting malaria has caused the largest average impact, statistically higher than a dollar per capita spent in STD/HIV control. We do not find statistically significant effects of other infectious disease aid, including aid for the control of tuberculosis.

Keywords: ODA; child mortality; infectious diseases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2012-03
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