| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14365 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14365 |
| The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach | |
| Shanti Gamper-Rabindran; Shakeeb Khan; Christopher Timmins | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-10-02 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable determinants of IMR -- the latter leading to an important source of bias. Instruments for piped water provision are not readily available, and fixed effects to control for time invariant correlated unobservables are invalid in the simple quantile regression framework. Using the quantile panel data procedure in Chen and Khan (2007), our estimates indicate that the provision of piped water reduces infant mortality by significantly more at the higher conditional quantiles of the IMR distribution than at the lower conditional quantiles (except for cases of extreme underdevelopment). These results imply that targeting piped water intervention toward areas in the upper quantiles of the conditional IMR distribution, when accompanied by other basic public health inputs, can achieve significantly greater reductions in infant mortality. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14365 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572045 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shanti Gamper-Rabindran,Shakeeb Khan,Christopher Timmins. The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach. 2008. |
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