期刊名称：Discussion Paper Series / Economics Department, University of Swansea
出版年度：2005
卷号：1
出版社：University of Swansea
摘要：Does health expenditure reduce infant mortality rates (IMRs)? To answer such important
question we disaggregate health expenditure into private and public and divide the countries into
two groups according to their level of development (income). The results obtained from
employing OLS and panel data techniques on 160 countries show strong negative relation
between health expenditure and IMRs. However, we find that this effect is channelled through
public expenditure at low development levels and through private expenditure at high
development stages. Our results are robust across different estimation methodologies. We also
find strong negative relationship between IMRs and per capita income and female education. The
effect of the environment variable is statistically weak.
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