Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries

We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently ass...

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Main Authors:	Schady, Norbert, Smitz, Marc-Francois
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Business Fluctuations Cycles E320 Health Production I120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4922

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spelling	okr-10986-49222021-04-23T14:02:20Z Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries Schady, Norbert Smitz, Marc-Francois Business Fluctuations Cycles E320 Health Production I120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently associated with higher mortality. 2012-03-30T07:30:24Z 2012-03-30T07:30:24Z 2010 Journal Article Economics Letters 01651765 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4922 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description	We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently associated with higher mortality.
format	Journal Article
author	Schady, Norbert Smitz, Marc-Francois
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title	Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries
title_short	Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries
title_full	Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries
title_fullStr	Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries
title_full_unstemmed	Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries
title_sort	aggregate economic shocks and infant mortality: new evidence for middle-income countries
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Aggregate Economic Shocks and Infant Mortality: New Evidence for Middle-Income Countries

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