Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru

Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru

The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality...

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Main Authors: Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:
infant mortality
public expenditures
macroeconomic crises
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru
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spelling okr-10986-164742021-04-23T14:03:29Z Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru Paxson, Christina Schady, Norbert infant mortality public expenditures macroeconomic crises The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that about 17,000 more children died than would have in the absence of the crisis. Accounting for the precise source of the increase in infant mortality is difficult, but it appears that the collapse in public and private expenditures on health played an important role. 2014-01-03T18:05:07Z 2014-01-03T18:05:07Z 2005-09-21 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru World Bank Economic Review doi:10.1093/wber/lhi011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16474 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Peru
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topic infant mortality
public expenditures
macroeconomic crises
spellingShingle infant mortality
public expenditures
macroeconomic crises
Paxson, Christina
Schady, Norbert
Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
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Peru
description The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that about 17,000 more children died than would have in the absence of the crisis. Accounting for the precise source of the increase in infant mortality is difficult, but it appears that the collapse in public and private expenditures on health played an important role.
format Journal Article
author Paxson, Christina
Schady, Norbert
author_facet Paxson, Christina
Schady, Norbert
author_sort Paxson, Christina
title Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
title_short Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
title_full Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
title_fullStr Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
title_full_unstemmed Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru
title_sort child health and economic crisis in peru
publisher Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16474
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