The resource curse and child mortality, 1961–2011
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Date
2017Source Title
Social Science and Medicine
Print ISSN
0277-9536
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Volume
176
Pages
142 - 148
Language
English
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Abstract
There is now an extensive literature on the adverse effect of petroleum wealth on the political, economic and social well-being of a country. In this study we examine whether the so-called resource curse extends to the health of children, as measured by under-five mortality. We argue that the type of revenue available to governments in petroleum-rich countries reduces their incentive to improve child health. Whereas the type of revenue available to governments in petroleum-poor countries encourages policies designed to improve child health. In order to test that line of argument we employ a panel of 167 countries (all countries with populations above 250,000) for the years 1961–2011. We find robust evidence that petroleum-poor countries outperform petroleum-rich countries when it comes to reducing under-five mortality. This suggests that governments in oil abundant countries often fail to effectively use the resource windfall at their disposal to improve child health.
Keywords
Country fixed-effectsHuman capital
Panel data
Resource curse
Under-five mortality
Child health
Child mortality
Energy use
Health policy
Human capital
Panel data
Socioeconomic impact
Twentieth century
Twenty first century
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Country economic status
Economic development
Health care cost
Health care financing
Health care planning
Human
Human immunodeficiency virus infection
Petrochemical industry
Resource allocation
Tax
Child
Developing country
Economics
Income
Politics
Preschool child
Statistics and numerical data
Trends
Utilization
Petroleum
Preschool
Developing countries
Health resources
Petroleum
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