"The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011

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The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011–2012

Journal of Development Studies (2016)

Andrew Barenberg
Deepankar Basu
Ceren Soylu

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Abstract

Using a panel data set of Indian states between 1983–1984 and 2011–2012, this paper studies the impact of public health expenditure on the infant mortality rate (IMR), after controlling for other relevant covariates like political competition, per capita income, female literacy, and urbanisation. We find that public expenditure on health care reduces the IMR. Our baseline specification shows that an increase in public health expenditure by 1 per cent of state-level net domestic product is associated with a reduction in the IMR by about nine infant deaths per 1000 live births. We also find that political competition, female literacy and urbanisation reduce the IMR.

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Health Economics

Publication Date

September, 2016

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2016.1241384

Citation Information

Andrew Barenberg, Deepankar Basu and Ceren Soylu. "The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: Evidence from a Panel of Indian States, 1983–1984 to 2011–2012" Journal of Development Studies (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/deepankar_dasu/32/