Public health spending, governance and child health outcomes: revisiting the links

• Main Authors: Hu, Bingjie, Mendoza, Ronald U
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2013
• Subjects: Child and infant mortality rates; Governance; Social spending; Fiscal space; JEL code: H-51; I-18; O-15
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/122; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19452829.2013.765392
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...