Public health spending on infant and child mortality in India during the years 1980–2006

Effects of state-level public spending o

Effects of state-level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India

✍ Mansour Farahani; S. V. Subramanian; David Canning 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 179 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract This study uses the second National Family Health Survey of India to estimate the effect of state‐level public health spending on mortality across all age groups, controlling for individual, household, and state‐level covariates. We use a state's gross fiscal deficit as an instrument fo