期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Ibero America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：Ibero America Institute for Economic Research
摘要：While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in
Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South Asia.
In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries suer by far the worst from
high rates of child mortality. This dierent pattern of child mortality and
undernutrition in both regions is well known, but approaches using aggregated
macro data have not been able to explain it appropriately. In this paper we
analyze the determinants of child mortality as well as child undernutrition
based on DHS data sets for a sample of ve developing countries in South Asia
and Sub-Saharan Africa. We investigate the eects of individual, household and
cluster socioeconomic characteristics using a multilevel model approach and
examine their respective in uences on both phenomena. We nd that the
determinants of child mortality and undernutrition dier signi cantly from each
other. Access to health infrastructure is more important for child mortality,
whereas the individual characteristics like wealth and educational and
nutritional characteristics of mothers play a larger role for anthropometric
shortfalls. Although very similar patterns in the determinants of each
phenomenon are discernable between countries, there are large dierences in the
magnitude of the coe cients. Besides regressions using a combined data set of
all six countries show, that there are still signi cant dierences between the
two regions although taking account of a large set of covariates.
