Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru

The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the lat...

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Published in:The World Bank economic review 2005-01, Vol.19 (2), p.203-223
Main Authors: Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child care
Children
Childrens health
Cholera
Consumption
Death
Economic crises
Economic crisis
Expenditures
Fertility
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Infant mortality
Infant mortality rates
Macroeconomics
Mortality
Mothers
Outdoor air quality
Per capita
Peru
Public health
Terrorism
Trends
World Bank
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Summary:The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the late 1980s, which implies that about 17,000 more children died than would have in the absence of the crisis. Accounting for the precise source of the increase in infant mortality is difficult, but it appears that the collapse in public and private expenditures on health played an important role.
ISSN:0258-6770
1564-698X
1564-698X
DOI:10.1093/wber/lhi011