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What Has Driven the Decline of Infant Mortality in Kenya?

Demombynes, Gabriel; Trommlerov??, Sofia Karina - 2012

-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries … in the region for which recent Demographic and Health Survey data is available. Kenya's rate of postneonatal deaths per 1 … widespread ownership of insecticide-treated bednets in areas of Kenya where malaria is rare suggests that better targeting of …

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Fungibility and the Impact of Development Assistance : Evidence from Vietnam's Health Sector

Wagstaff, Adam - 2012

How can the impact of aid be estimated in the presence of fungibility? And how far does fungibility reduce its benefits? These questions are analyzed in a context where a donor wants to target its efforts on a specific sector and specific geographic areas. A traditional...

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Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

Baird, Sarah; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert - 2012

The diffusion of cost-effective life saving technologies has reduced infant mortality in much of the developing world. Income gains may also play a direct, protective role in ensuring child survival, although the empirical findings to date on this issue have been mixed. This paper assembles data...

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Saving Lives through Technology : Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality

Abay, Kibrom A.; Mensah, Justice Tei; Tafere, Kibrom - 2022

Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa. Using plausibly exogenous variations in lightning...

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Health Outcomes in Poor Countries and Policy Options : Empirical Findings from Demographic and Health Surveys

Wang, Limin - 2013

Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates the determinants of health outcomes in low-income...

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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi

Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...

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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil; Swaroop, Vinaya - 2013

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it affects the relationship between public spending and outcomes. Their main innovation is to see if differences in efficacy of public spending can be explained by quality of...

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Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in Rural China : A Competing Risks Approach

Jacoby, Hanan; Wang, Limin - 2013

We use a competing risk model to analyze environmental determinants of child mortality using the 1992 China National Health Survey, which collects information on cause of death. Our primary question is whether taking into account of cause of death using a competing risk model, compared with a...

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Child Health and the 1988-92 Economic Crisis in Peru

Paxson, Christina; Schady, Norbert - 2013

The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. The authors use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and anthropometrics. They show that there was an...

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Child Mortality in Rural India

Van der Klaauw, Bas; Wang, Limin - 2013

The authors focus on infant and child mortality in rural areas of India. They construct a flexible duration model framework that allows for frailty at multiple levels and interactions between the child's age and individual socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics. The model is estimated...

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