EFFECT OF HOUSING ON INFANT MORTALITY: EVIDENCE OF A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN

• Autor(a) principal: Nishimura, Fábio
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Análise Econômica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/AnaliseEconomica/article/view/81890
• topic: Residential leasing program; Child mortality; Regression Discontinuity Design; Programa de Arrendamento Residencial; Mortalidade Infantil; Desenho de Regressão Descontínua; I20; I28; J28

In 2001, the Federal Government created the Residential Leasing Program(RLP), which included 340 of the 5,570 municipalities that have at least 100,000 inhabitantswith the priority to reduce the housing deficit. Theoretical studies in housing andhealth indicate that actions related to the construction quality of housing for the population,and reduce part of the housing deficit also promote a reduction in infant mortality.However, some of these theoretical studies are lacking in a more rigorous statistical instrumentand which are statistically more consistent results. The present study examinedthe effect of RLP on infant mortality and how empirical strategy was used the regressiondiscontinuity design model controlling for possible endogeneity problems and ensuresstatistically biased answers. The results showed that the RLP can reduce child deaths inthe year of its inception as well as for the subsequent three years. Still, to ensure our results,robustness tests were applied which signaled that our model is well specified.