Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru

The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality...

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Main Authors: Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/17747624/child-health-economic-crisis-peru
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16474