Brock, Gregory; Jin, Yinghua; Zeng, Tong - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 37 (2015) 2, pp. 175-188
Regional Chinese infant mortality rates (IMRs) are examined using a stochastic frontier method for the first time. The composite error term method yields estimates of large underreporting of IMRs over time and provinces in China during the past 30 years. China does not follow the standard growth...