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dc.contributor.authorHarttgen, Kennethen
dc.contributor.authorGünther, Isabelen
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-15T14:20:55Z-
dc.date.available2011-07-15T14:20:55Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/48302-
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we analyze if an 'urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child mortality is higher in rural areas for almost all countries. On average child mortality rates are 13.6 percent in rural areas and 'only' 10.8 percent in urban areas. In contrast, average urban adult mortality rates (on average 14.5 percent) have indeed exceeded rural adult mortality rates (on average 12.8 percent) in many of our sample countries in the 2000s. For many countries high child mortality pockets do, however, exist in slum areas within cities. Child mortality rates in slum areas are on average 1.65 times higher than in the formal settlements of cities, but still lower than in rural areas.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft |cKiel und Hamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 |x39en
dc.subject.jelI10en
dc.subject.jelI30en
dc.subject.jelJ10en
dc.subject.jelR00en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmortalityen
dc.subject.keywordurbanen
dc.subject.keywordslumen
dc.subject.keywordinequalityen
dc.titleDeadly Cities? A Note on Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa-
dc.typeConference Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn665489544en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:gdec11:39en

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