Paxson, Christina; Schady, Norbert - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2004
The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. We show that there was an increase in the infant mortality rate of about 2.5...