全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14862 Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14862
	DP14862 Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
	John Cruzatti C.; Axel Dreher; Johannes Matzat
发表日期	2020-06-09
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set of interacted variables. Variation over time results from indicators that measure the availability of funding in a given year. Cross-sectional variation results from a sub-national region's "probability to receive aid." Controlled for this probability in tandem with fixed effects for country-years and provinces, the interactions of these variables form powerful and excludable instruments. Our results show that Chinese aid increases infant mortality at sub-national scales, but decreases mortality at the country-level. In several tests, we show that this stark contrast likely results from aid being fungible within recipient countries.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Health aid Fungibility Infant mortality
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14862
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543802
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John Cruzatti C.,Axel Dreher,Johannes Matzat. DP14862 Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level. 2020.