Local economic growth and infant mortality

Andreas Kammerlander and Günther Schulze

Journal of Health Economics, 2023, vol. 87, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and a total of 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 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: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102699

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