Aggregate economic shocks and infant mortality: New evidence for middle-income countries

Norbert Schady and Marc-Francois Smitz

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 2, 145-148

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Income; shocks; Infant; mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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