Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links

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dc.creatorHu, Bingjie
dc.creatorMendoza, Ronald U.
dc.date2013-04-24T14:31:59Z
dc.date2013-04-24T14:31:59Z
dc.date2013-03-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:56:04Z
dc.descriptionThis paper empirically examines the determinants of child health in developing countries and how public policy may interact with these determinants. It improves on previous empirical studies by conducting a more careful analysis of the determinants controlling for possible endogeneity, and by using a more comprehensive and richer panel dataset, drawing on a health database covering 136 countries over 1960–2005, supplemented by the latest World Development Indicators dataset as well as data on a broad variety of alternative indicators of governance, such as those from the International Country Risk Guide and the Open Budget Index. We find that both public spending on healthcare and the quality of governance matter for the reduction of child mortality rates. However, our mixed results on the interaction of governance with public spending throw some doubt on the conclusiveness of previous empirical studies.
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dc.identifierJournal of Human Development and Capabilities
dc.identifier1945-2829
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/13262
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/13262
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/413169
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.relationJournal of Human Development and Capabilities;
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectchild mortality
dc.subjectinfant mortality
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjectsocial spending
dc.subjectfiscal space
dc.titlePublic Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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