van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - In: The World Bank Economic Review 19 (2005) 2, pp. 225-261
The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children born during the crisis of the...