Infant Health during the 1980s Peruvian Crisis and Long-term Economic Outcomes

Gutiérrez, Federico H.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.08.002

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“…In the absence of such information, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an indicator of countries' ability to produce and distribute vaccines. Countries with high GDP growth have a significant capital investment that provides outstanding physical and human capital investments to improve vaccination [25] .…”

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The relationship between macro-socioeconomics determinants and COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Roghani

2021

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<abstract> Since coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has continued to spread globally, many countries have started vaccinations at the end of December 2020. This research examines the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine distribution and two macro-socioeconomics measures, including human development index and gross domestic product, among 25 countries for two points in time, including February and August 2021. The COVID-19 dataset is a collection of the COVID-19 data maintained by Our World in Data. It is a daily updated dataset and includes confirmed cases, vaccinations, deaths, and testing data. Ordinary Least Squares was applied to examine how macro-socioeconomic measures predict the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine over time. <sec> <title>Results</title> The results indicate that a higher gross domestic product per capita is positively associated with higher COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and this relationship becomes more robust over time. However, some countries may have more successful vaccine distribution results regardless of their gross domestic product. In addition, the result shows human development index does not have a significant relationship with vaccine distribution. </sec><sec> <title>Conclusion</title> Economic measures may be counted as a more vital indicator for vaccine distribution as they have a more direct relationship distribution with health infrastructure than social measures such as human development index. </sec></abstract>

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2021

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“…Since health is an important input for human capital formation, brain development, educational success, future labor supply and productivity (Ferreira & Schady, 2009; Gutierrez, 2017; Hoddinott et al., 2008; Maluccio et al., 2009), we now turn to educational outcomes. Strauss and Thomas (2007) and Barker (1998) show that children who suffer from malnutrition during early‐life adapt their metabolism permanently to a lower level resulting in slower growth but assuring survival.…”

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“…While overall, evidence about the long‐term effects of economic crizes is limited, it is even more scares for developing countries (Gutierrez, 2017) and tends to derive from small samples (Alderman et al., 2006). Therefore, this paper complements existing evidence by providing average long‐run effects of being born during an economic crisis using nationally representative data from a developing country.…”

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“…The only educational variable that is present in the two surveys is completed years of schooling. Since this variable has been used in earlier studies to measure the impact of crizes on education (Gutierrez, 2017; Maccini & Yang, 2009), we consider it a valid educational measure as long as the highest grade completed and the reported years of attended schooling correspond to the grade‐specific age of the child.…”

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“…Existing research rests on relatively small samples of individuals who live in a specific area or belong to a specific socio‐economic group, and tends to exploit geographic variation in exposure or variation in the subpopulation exposed for identification purposes (Alderman et al., 2006; Cutler et al., 2007; Hidrobo, 2014; Rosales‐Rueda, 2018; Van Den Berg et al., 2006). Our estimates reflect the average effect based on nationally representative surveys exploiting cohort variation in exposure to the crisis at birth. Fourth , the literature tends to separately study health outcomes such as mortality (Cutler et al., 2007; De Cao et al., 2022; Van Den Berg et al., 2006) and anthropometric measures (Banerjee et al., 2010), and education outcomes such as schooling (Gutierrez, 2017). Human capital formation theories suggest health losses lead to future losses in education and eventually decrease productivity (Grossman, 1972).…”

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Long‐term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador

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2023

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This paper provides evidence on the lasting effects of the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador on human capital formation. We show for children born during the crisis that the negative repercussions are still observable more than 10 years after macroeconomic recovery. Taking advantage of micro‐level data collected in 2012 and 2014, we assess long‐term impacts on health and education. After controlling for age‐in‐months and survey effects as well as a linear birth year‐cohort trend that varies by region, we find that after 12–16 years, the cohorts born during the recession report height‐for‐age Z‐scores that are 0.003 standard deviations (SDs) lower for each month of exposure and have 0.002 fewer years of schooling per month exposed compared to the cohorts born outside the recession years. Children exposed to the entire crisis are 0.063 SDs smaller and have 0.042 years less of schooling. Girls have lower health outcomes than boys. Concomitantly, we show that selective childbearing or excess infant mortality are unlikely to drive our results. The persistence of the negative effects points to the existence of a poverty trap suggesting that policy interventions in response to (economic) crizes should be extended beyond macroeconomic recovery to counteract long‐term, micro‐level consequences.

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Vaccination and GDP Growth Rates: Exploring the Links in a Conditional Convergence Framework

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Infant Health during the 1980s Peruvian Crisis and Long-term Economic Outcomes

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

The relationship between macro-socioeconomics determinants and COVID-19 vaccine distribution

The relationship between macro-socioeconomics determinants and COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Long‐term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador

Vaccination and GDP Growth Rates: Exploring the Links in a Conditional Convergence Framework

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