@article{Mary:212231,
      recid = {212231},
      author = {Mary, Sebastien and Gomez y Paloma, Sergio},
      title = {Does Aid Decrease Child Mortality?},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80399},
      pages = {32},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {The literature has traditionally found no or little  aggregate impact of foreign aid on infant mortality. We  suggest that exceptionally high persistence in infant  mortality data and sector aid data incompleteness may have  played some role in generating such disappointing results.  Accounting for both issues, this paper estimates the  aggregate impacts of total and sector aid on the neo-natal,  infant and under-five mortality rates using fractional  estimation techniques for panel data controlling for  time-invariant country-specific effects, measurement errors  and endogeneity. We confirm that total aid has no impact on  child mortality rates. We find mixed evidence that health  aid reduces child mortality but robust evidence that  agricultural aid has large effects. Aid policies aimed at  reducing child mortality in developing countries should  recognise the increased importance of targeting the  agriculture.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212231},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212231},
}