Accountable Government Spending: A Cross-National Analysis of Child Mortality in Developing Nations.

ABSTRACT: What can national governments do to improve their capacity for well-being? While increasing public medical care expenditures can facilitate increased well-being in developing nations, cross-national research often finds that public medical care expenditures have no effect on indicators of well-being, such as child mortality. This ineffective public spending could be due to a lack of governance; however, this relationship is understudied in the cross-national literature. Using 2-way fixed and generalized least squares random effects models for a sample of 74 low- and middle-income nations from 1996 to 2012, I examine how the interaction among 5 measures of national governance and public medical care expenditures impact child mortality. The findings reveal the importance of governance in det

SUBMITTER: Sommer JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592112 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature