Early child health in Africa: do ICT and democracy matter?
Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa,
Jacques Simon Song
Abstract:This article examines the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) and democracy on early child health using data from 51 African countries. We first specify and estimate a panel data model using ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares over the period 2001–2019. We apply the Hodrick–Prescott filter before analysis. Our results show that the extension of mobile phone use significantly contributes to the improvement of early child health in Africa. This effect is indifferent to the s… Show more
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