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| Titel: | A Multilevel Approach to Explain Child Mortality and Undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Autoren: | Misselhorn, Mark Harttgen, Kenneth |
| Datum: | 2006 |
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| Reihe/Nr.: | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2006 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 20 |
| Zusammenfassung: | While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub-
Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South
Asia. In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries suffer by far
the worst from high rates of child mortality. This different pattern of
child mortality and undernutrition in both regions is well known, but
approaches using aggregated macro data have not been able to explain
it appropriately. In this paper we analyze the determinants of child
mortality as well as child undernutrition based on DHS data sets for
a sample of six developing countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan
Africa. We investigate the effects of individual, household and cluster
socioeconomic characteristics using a multilevel model approach
and examine their respective influences on both phenomena. We find
that the determinants of child mortality and undernutrition differ significantly
from each other. Access to health infrastructure is more
important for child mortality, whereas the individual characteristics
like wealth and educational and nutritional characteristics of mothers
play a larger role for anthropometric shortfalls. Although very similar
patterns in the determinants of each phenomenon are discernable,
there are large differences in the magnitude of the coefficients. Besides
regressions using a combined data set of all six countries show, that
there are still significant differences between the two regions although
taking account of a large set of covariates. |
| Erscheint in der Sammlung: | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2006 (Berlin)
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