Barenberg, Andrew J.; Basu, Deepankar; Soylu, Ceren - 2015
Using a panel data set of Indian states between 1983-84 and 2011-12, this paper studies the impact of public health … literacy, and urbanization. We find that public expenditure on health care reduces IMR. Our baseline specification shows that … about 8 infant deaths per 1000 live births. We also find that female literacy and urbanization reduces the IMR. …