Aggregate economic shocks and infant mortality: New evidence for middle-income countries

Economics Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-148

  Schady, Norbert ^a   Smitz, Marc Francois ^b  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Income shocks; Infant mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954034558     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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