RETRACTED: Income Shocks and Child Mortality Rates: Evidence from Fluctuations in Oil Prices

ECONOMICS

Rivero Catalina¹  Acuna Pedro¹ 

[1] Department of Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Ayacucho 1245 (C1111AAI) - Buenos Aires, Argentina;

关键词: income;    child mortality;    infant mortality;    toddler mortality;    income inequality;    oil price;    panel data;    two-stage least square;    instrumental variable;    d31;    o13;    i14;    p36;    c23;   

DOI  :  10.2478/eoik-2021-0002

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Previous studies show that children in lower socioeconomic status families reveal higher rates of mortality. We complement the income-mortality literature by establishing a causal link between income and child mortality. Our instrument for income is based on time-series global shocks to oil prices combined with the cross-sectional share of employment in manufacturing across US states as their exposure to oil price changes. Using the universe of death records between the years 1975-2004, we find the OLS results of income-child-mortality relationships are under-biased. The 2SLS-IV results suggest that a $1,000 increase in income per capita at the state level reduces child mortality and infant mortality by 0.87 and 0.53 fewer incidences per 1,000 population of age-specific children.

【 授权许可】

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