Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

John Cruzatti Constantine; Axel  Dreher; Johannes Matzat

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106214

Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

John Cruzatti Constantine, Axel Dreher^*, Johannes Matzat

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Abstract

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002–2014 period. Our results show that Chinese aid decreases infant mortality at the country level. Relative to the country average, aid however increases infant mortality at sub-national scales. In several tests, we show that this stark contrast likely results from aid being fungible within recipient countries.

Original language	English
Article number	106214
Journal	World Development
Volume	167
Early online date	11 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106214
Publication status	Published - Jul 2023

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JEL Codes: I15, F35

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Axel Dreher and Johannes Matzat thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG—German Research Foundation) for generous funding (RTG 1723, DR 640/5-3). We thank Roland Hodler and Paul Raschky for generously sharing their birth region data for this project, Lennart Kaplan, Nancy Qian and Lukas Wellner for helpful comments, Tobias Hellmundt and Riyoko Shibe for excellent research assistance, and Harrison Bardwell for proof-reading.

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