Local Economic Growth and Infant Mortality

Andreas Kammerlander () and Günther Schulze

No 41, Discussion Paper Series from Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg

Abstract: We show, for the rst time, a causal eect 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 xed eects we show that an increase in local economic activity signicantly 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)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2021-09, Revised 2021-09
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Journal Article: Local economic growth and infant mortality (2023)
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