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The wealth of nations and the health of populations are intimately stronglyassociated, yet the extent to which economic prosperity (GDP per capita) causesimproved health remains disputed. The purpose of this article is to analyze theimpact of sovereign debt crises (SDC) on child mortality, using a sample of 57low- and middle-income countries surveyed by the Demographic and Health Surveybetween the years 1990 and 2015. These surveys supply 229 household data andcontaining about 3 million childbirth history records. This focus on SDCinstead of GDP provides a quasi-experimental moment in which the influence ofunobserved confounding is less than a moment analyzing the normal fluctuationsof GDP. This study measures child mortality at six thresholds: neonatal,under-one (infant), under-two, under-three, under-four, and under-fivemortality. Using a machine-learning (ML) model for causal inference, this studyfinds that while an SDC causes an adverse yet statistically insignificanteffect on neonatal mortality, all other child mortality group samples areadversely affected between a probability of 0.12 to 0.14 (all statisticallysignificant at the 95-percent threshold). Through this ML, this study alsofinds that the most important treatment heterogeneity moderator, in the entireadjustment set, is whether a child is born in a low-income country.

The wealth of nations and the health of populations: A quasi-experimental design of the impact of sovereign debt crises on child mortality