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

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...