Neoliberal economic policies and infant and child mortality : simulation analysis of a Chilean paradox

David E. Hojman

The paradox of deteriorating living standards for the poorest, coexisting with declining infant and child mortality rates during the 1970s, is explained by a simultaneous model where these rates and the birth rate are endogenous. The role of midwife visits, average real earnings and cheap energy for poor urban households are emphasized. Perversely, high unemployment also contributed to the actual mortality decline during the period

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Year of publication:	1989
Authors:	Hojman, David E.
Published in:	World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development. - Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, ISSN 0305-750X, ZDB-ID 185339-9. - Vol. 17.1989, 1, p. 93-108
Subject:	Wirtschaftsliberalismus \| Economic liberalism \| Kindersterblichkeit \| Child mortality \| Chile \| 1970-1979

Extent:	4 Tab., Lit. S. 107-108
Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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