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LAMELAS CASTELLANOS, Nélida; AGUAYO LORENZO, Eva  y  CANCELO MARQUEZ, María Teresa. Reduction of Infantile Mortality: Econometrics Modelización for Central America and South America, 1970-2000. Inv. Econ [online]. 2006, vol.65, n.256, pp.131-148. ISSN 0185-1667.

The attention to the determinant of the infant mortality continues being a high-priority task in our days. The advances reached in their decrease in Latin America in the last decades, are associated to the achievements of the health system, to the economic growth, to the urbanization, and to the investments in education, among other factors. Although these two first factors, have been those most frequently analyzed, the educational factor is a decisive factor in this process, being considered representative of the socioeconomic status.

This paper analyzes the positive incidence on the reduction of the infant mortality rate (age below 1), of two social indicators: the percentage of female population with a specific level of schooling, and the urban percentage of population.

With this purpose we estimate, with a pool of data, two econometric models for explaining the role of these indicators both in six Central American countries, and in ten South American countries, for decades of the period of 1970-2000.

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