Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links

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Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links

dc.contributor.author	Hu, Bingjie
dc.contributor.author	Mendoza, Ronald U.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-24T14:31:59Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-24T14:31:59Z
dc.date.issued	2013-03-21
dc.description.abstract	This paper empirically examines the determinants of child health in developing countries and how public policy may interact with these determinants. It improves on previous empirical studies by conducting a more careful analysis of the determinants controlling for possible endogeneity, and by using a more comprehensive and richer panel dataset, drawing on a health database covering 136 countries over 1960–2005, supplemented by the latest World Development Indicators dataset as well as data on a broad variety of alternative indicators of governance, such as those from the International Country Risk Guide and the Open Budget Index. We find that both public spending on healthcare and the quality of governance matter for the reduction of child mortality rates. However, our mixed results on the interaction of governance with public spending throw some doubt on the conclusiveness of previous empirical studies.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/13262
dc.identifier.issn	1945-2829
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13262
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Human Development and Capabilities;
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	child mortality
dc.subject	infant mortality
dc.subject	governance
dc.subject	social spending
dc.subject	fiscal space
dc.title	Public Health Spending, Governance and Child Health Outcomes : Revisiting the Links	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2013-04-02
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:23:54.641622Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.journal.nbpages	285-311
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19452829.2013.765392
okr.theme	Public sector governance :: Public expenditure, financial management and procurement
okr.theme	Human development :: Child health
okr.theme	Human development :: Health system performance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Adolescent Health
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Policy and Management
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.volume	14(2)