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

This 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...

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Main Authors:	Hu, Bingjie, Mendoza, Ronald U.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	child mortality infant mortality governance social spending fiscal space
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13262

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spelling	okr-10986-132622021-04-23T14:03:07Z Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links Hu, Bingjie Mendoza, Ronald U. child mortality infant mortality governance social spending fiscal space This 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. 2013-04-24T14:31:59Z 2013-04-24T14:31:59Z 2013-03-21 Journal Article Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 1945-2829 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13262 en_US Journal of Human Development and Capabilities; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	child mortality infant mortality governance social spending fiscal space Hu, Bingjie Mendoza, Ronald U. Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
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description	This 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.
format	Journal Article
author	Hu, Bingjie Mendoza, Ronald U.
author_facet	Hu, Bingjie Mendoza, Ronald U.
author_sort	Hu, Bingjie
title	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
title_short	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
title_full	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
title_fullStr	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
title_full_unstemmed	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links
title_sort	public health spending, governance and child health outcomes : revisiting the links
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2013
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13262
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Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links

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