This paper investigates the relationship between real incomes in Sub-Saharan African countries during 1990–2018 and child wellbeing. A new UNICEF-WHO-World Bank database of child growth and malnutrition and annual measures of child mortality from the World Development Indicators are employed. Changes in real incomes are related to changes in these measures. Real incomes are found to be strongly negatively conditionally associated with stunting, underweight and child mortality. The fraction of each country’s export revenue derived from major non-agricultural export commodities in 1990 is then used to construct a counterfactual value of export revenues. This measure is used to predict real incomes in a country in a year. The impact of incomes on child mortality outcomes is then assessed. Instrumental variables results suggest that improved incomes may have causally reduced neonatal and under-five mortality.
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A. Kamanzi, A. McKay, A. Newell, Cinzia Rienzo, Wiktoria Tafesse
For many decades the worldwide expansion of supply and demand for skilled work has been at the heart of economic growth and development. In this paper, we use the 1991–2010 panel data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey in North West Tanzania to examine the work outcomes at the end of the panel of those who were young (7 to 24 years) in the baseline. First, we illustrate the significant extent to which advanced education and skilled work go hand in hand. We analyse specifically the baseline household factors enabling individuals to access more advanced education, and we find quite different results by gender. We then analyse, again by gender, how this education plus baseline characteristics matter for attaining skilled or professional work. We also study the importance of migration in the process and the degree of intergenerational mobility in skilled work. The results show vividly how some key household factors help young men advance in their education and career, while childcare in particular retards the progress young women can make.
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