to other geopolitical regions. However, despite the close relationship between undernutrition and mortality rates, the … highest mortality rates are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. By accounting for this survival bias, i.e. selective mortality …. In addition, one can also ask whether undernutrition rates would differ without selective mortality. Using data for …

We provide country-specific estimates of the effect of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality for a sample of mainly … middle-income countries. In most countries, infant mortality appears to be pro-cyclical or acyclical. Only when shocks to GDP … are very deep, 15% or larger, are they consistently associated with higher mortality …