Why has under-5 mortality decreased at such different rates in different countries?

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 16-25

  Jamison, Dean T ^a   Murphy, Shane M ^b   Sandbu, Martin E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c The Financial Times   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; Technical progress; Under 5 mortality; Varying coefficients model

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

DECOMPOSITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INCOME; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84961872555     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Adams P., Hurd M.D., McFadden D., Merrill A., Ribiero T. Healthy, wealthy and wise? Tests for direct causal paths between health and socioeconomic status. Journal of Econometrics 2003, 111(1):3-56.
2. Banks A.S. Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive. Databanks International 2010, Jerusalem, Israel, 〈http://www.databanksinternational.com〉.
3. Bates, D., Maechler, M., Dai, B., 2008. lme4: linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. R package version 0.999375-28.
4. Bishai D.M. Infant mortality time series are random walks with drift: are they cointegrated with economic variable?. Health Economics 1995, 4:157-167.
5. Bloom D.E., Sachs J.D. Geography demography, and economic growth in Africa. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1999, 2:207-295.
6. Boskin M.J., Lau L.J. Generalized Solow-neutral technical progress and postwar economic growth. National Bureau of Economic Research W8023 2000, NBER, Cambridge, MA, December.
7. Bryk A.S., Raudenbusch S.W. Hierarchical Linear Models 1992, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.
8. Crafts N. Globalization and Growth in the Twentieth Century 2000, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C, (Working Paper WP/00/44, March).
9. Cutler D., Deaton A., Lleras-Muney A. The determinants of mortality. Journal of Economic Perspectives 2006, 20(3):97-120.
10. Davis K. The amazing decline of mortality in underdeveloped areas. American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 1956, 46(2):305-318. May.
11. Deaton A. Relative Deprivation, Inequality, and Mortality 2001, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, (Working Paper 8099).
12. DeLong J.B. Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century 2000, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, (Working Paper 7602, March).
13. Easterlin R.A. Growth Triumphant 1996, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
14. Easterlin R.A. How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality. European Review of Economic History 1999, 3:257-294.
15. Easterly W. Life during growth. Journal of Economic Growth 1999, 4:239-326.
16. Easterly W., Levine Levine R. Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development. Journal of Monetary Economics 2003, 50(1):3-39.
17. Filmer D., Pritchett L. The impact of public spending on health: does money matter?. Social Science and Medicine 1999, 49:1309-1323.
18. Fogel R.W. New findings on secular trends in nutrition and mortality: some implications for population theory. Handbook of Population and Family Economics 1997, 1A:433-481. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
19. Fuchs V. Comment. Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 1980, 348-351. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. R. Easterlin (Ed.).
20. Fuchs V. Some economic aspects of mortality in developed countries. The Economics of Health and Medical Care 1974, 174-193. Macmillon, London. Perlman, Mark (Eds.).
21. Gallup, J.L., Sachs, J.D., Mellinger, A., 1999. Geography and economic development, CID Working Paper No. 1, Center for International Development, Harvard University.
22. Gelman A., Hill J. Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models 2007, Cambridge University Press, New York.
23. Heston A., Summers R. International price and quantity comparisons: potentials and pitfalls. International Macro- and Microeconomic Data 1996, 86:20-24.
24. Heston A., Summers R., Aten B. The Penn World Tables (Mark 6.3). Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices, CIC 2009.
25. Hill K., Amouzou A. Trends in child mortality in the developing world: 1960 to 1996. Disease, Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2006, World Bank Publications, Washington, DC. D.T. Jamison (Ed.).
26. Jamison E.A., Jamison D.T., Hanushek E.A. The effects of education quality on income growth and mortality decline. Economics of Education Review 2007, 26(6):771-788.
27. Jamison D.T., Lau L.J., Wang J. Health's contribution to economic growth in an environment of partially endogenous technical progress. Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications. 2005, 67-91. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. G. Lopez-Casasnovas, B. Rivera, L. Currais (Eds.).
28. Jamison D.T., Summers L.H., et al. Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation. The Lancet 2013, 382:1898-1955.
29. Kreft I., De Leeuw J. Introducing Multilevel Modeling 1998, Sage Publications, London.
30. Lee K., Pesaran M.H., Smith R. Growth and convergence in a multi-country empirical stochastic growth model. Journal of Applied Econometrics 1997, 12:357-392.
31. Lee K., Pesaran M.H., Smith R. Growth empirics: a panel data approach-a comment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1998, 113(1):319-323.
32. Lim S., Stein D., Charrow A., Murray C.J.L. Tracking progress towards universal childhood immunisation and the impact of global initiatives: a systematic analysis of three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunisation coverage. The Lancet 2008, 372:2031-2046. Dec 13.
33. Lutz W., et al. Reconstruction of populations by age, sex and level of educational attainment for 120 countries for 1970-2000, Interim Report IR-07-002 2007, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
34. Maddison A. Poor until 1820. The Wall Street Journal Europe 1999, 11. (January).
35. Mokyr J., Stein R. Science, health and household technology: the effect of the pasteur revolution on consumer demand. The Economics of New Goods. 1997, 143-200. University of Chicago Press and NBER, Chicago. R.J. Gordon, T. Bresnahan (Eds.).
36. Mosk C., Johannson S.R. Income and mortality: evidence from modern Japan. Population and Development Review 1986, 12:415-440.
37. Nordhaus W. The health of nations: the contributions of improved health to living standards. Measuring the Gains from Health Research: An Economic Approach 2003, 9-40. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. M. Kevin, Murphy, H. Robert, Topel (Eds.).
38. Oeppen, J., 2006. Life expectancy convergence among nations since 1820: separating the effects of technology and income. Perspectives on mortality forecasting. III: the linear rise in life expectancy: history and prospects. Stockholm, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, pp. 55-82.
39. Pesaran M.H., Smith R. Estimating long-run relationships from dynamic heterogeneous panels. Journal of Econometrics 1995, 68:79-113.
40. Pison G., et al. Rapid decline in child mortality in a rural area of Senegal. International Journal of Epidemiology 1993, 22(1):72-80.
41. Powles J. Healthier progress: historical perspectives on the social and economic determinants of health. The Social Origins of Health and Well-being 2001, 3-24. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. R. Eckersly, J. Dixon, B. Douglas (Eds.).
42. Preston S.H. Causes and consequences of mortality declines in less developed countries during the twentieth century. Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 1980, 289-360. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. Easterlin, Richard (Eds.).
43. Preston S.H. The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies 1975, 29(2):231-248.
44. Pritchett L., Summers L.H. Wealthier is healthier. The Journal of Human Resources 1996, 31(4):841-868.
45. Rajaratnam J.K., Marcus J.R., Flaxman A.D., Wang H., Levin-Rector A., Dwyer L., Costa M., Lopez A.D., Murray C.J. Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. The Lancet 2010, 375(9730):1988-2008. (June 5).
46. Robertson D., Symons J. Some strange properties of panel data estimators. Journal of Applied Econometrics 1992, 7:175-189.
47. Sachs J.D., Warner A.M. Economic reform and the process of global integration. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1995, 1:1-118. (August).
48. Schultz T.W. Investment in human capital. The American Economic Review 1961, 51:1-17.
49. Solow R. Technical change and the aggregate production function. Review of Economics and Statistics 1957, 39:312-320.
50. Summers R., Heston A. The penn world table (Mark 5): an expanded set of international comparisons, 1950-1988. Quarterly Journal of Economics 1991, 106:327-368.
51. UNICEF, 2009. The State of the World's Children (Special Edition): Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York (November).
52. United Nations, 1950-2000. UN Statistical Yearbook. New York: United Nations.
53. Usher D. An imputation to the measure of economic growth for changes in life expectancy. The Measurement of Economic and Social Performance 1973, 193-226. Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago. Moss, Milton (Eds.).
54. Wacziarg R., Welch K. Trade liberalization and growth: new evidence. World Bank Economic Review 2007, 22:187-193.
55. Wagstaff A., Bustreo F., Bryce J., Claeson M. The who-world bank child health and poverty working group. Child health: reaching the poor. American Journal of Public Health 2004, 94(5 (May)):726-736.