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Does Trade Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, Pallavi Panda
Does Trade Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, Pallavi Panda
School of Business
Trade can affect the development process of a country via various direct and indirect mechanisms. Empirically, it is difficult to identify causal effects, as trade is likely to be endogenous to other socio-economic factors that also affect development. To overcome this problem, this study uses a trade policy experiment called the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which conferred many sub-Saharan African countries largely duty-free and quota-free access to US markets. Using retrospective birth histories from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), I develop a large micro panel dataset that spans 30 sub-Saharan African countries and carry out a within-mother variation …