specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health … restricting the sample to rural households, a significant effect of health expenditure on infant mortality emerges, the long run …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … covariates including rainshocks. I cannot reject the null that income shocks have no effect on mortality in urban households, but … I find that rural infant mortality is counter-cyclical, the elasticity being about -0.46. This is despite the …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … covariates including rainshocks. I cannot reject the null that income shocks have no effect on mortality in urban households, but … I find that rural infant mortality is counter-cyclical, the elasticity being about -0.46. This is despite the …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health … restricting the sample to rural households, a significant effect of health expenditure on infant mortality emerges, the long run …