07-067/3 - What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality — Household or Community Characteristics?


  • Authors
    Ellen van de Poel, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Owen O'Donnell, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; Eddy Van Doorslaer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Publication date
    August 28, 2007
  • Keywords
    Sub-Saharan Africa; rural-urban inequality; infant mortality; decomposition; unobserved heterogeneity
  • JEL
    I12; I31; O53