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...
Main Authors: | Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English en_US |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16474 |
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