• français
    • English
  • English 
    • français
    • English
  • Login
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
BIRD Home

Browse

This CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsJournals BIRDResearch centres & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Aid, Remittances, Medical Brain Drain and Child Mortality: Evidence Using Inter and Intra-Country Data.

Thumbnail
Date
2013
Dewey
Croissance et développement économiques
Sujet
Health aid; remittances; child mortality
JEL code
I.I3.I38; O.O1.O15; I.I1.I12; F.F2.F24
Journal issue
The Journal of Development Studies
Volume
49
Number
6
Publication date
2013
Article pages
801-818
Publisher
F. Cass
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.742508
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/11393
Collections
  • LEDa : Publications
Metadata
Show full item record
Author
Chauvet, Lisa
status unknown
Gubert, Flore
status unknown
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
status unknown
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
This article analyses the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain (MBD) on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it. Health aid also significantly reduces child mortality but its impact is less robust than the impact of remittances. Remittances seem to be more effective in reducing mortality for children belonging to households from the upper classes, whereas neither a pro-poor nor anti-poor effect is found for health aid.

  • Accueil Bibliothèque
  • Site de l'Université Paris-Dauphine
  • Contact
SCD Paris Dauphine - Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris Cedex 16

 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.0 France (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) license.