For Health, Strength, and Daily Food: The Dual Impact of Remittances and Public Health Expenditure on Household Health Spending and Child Health Outcomes

Sophia C. Terrelonge

Journal of Development Studies, 2014, vol. 50, issue 10, 1397-1410

Abstract: Child and infant mortality in developing countries decreased 33.5 per cent and 30.9 per cent, respectively, during 1995-2009, while remittances and public health spending more than doubled. I examine how remittances and government health spending improve these child health outcomes. Neither government health spending nor remittances causally affect household health spending. Public health spending has an insignificant negative impact on mortality. The increase in remittances causally accounts for 32 per cent and 37 per cent of the decline in child and infant mortality, respectively. Remittances reduce mortality through improved living standards from the relaxation of households' budget constraints.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2014.940911

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