Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Chris Doucouliagos, Jack Hennessy () and Debdulal Mallick
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Jack Hennessy: Deakin University

No 12166, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the probability of allocating health aid to a recipient nation. The effectiveness of health aid in reducing infant mortality is conditional on good governance (measured either as government effectiveness or control of corruption). Specifically, health aid to a recipient nation that experiences a one standard deviation improvement in government effectiveness reduces infant mortality by about 4 percent. Our findings reaffirm the importance of improving the quality of governance in recipient nations.

Keywords: good governance; infant mortality; health aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2019-02
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Published - published in: Statistics in Society - Series A, 2021, 184 (2), 761-783

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