Statistical Analysis of Infant Mortality

Student: Petrukhina Kseniia

Educational Programme: Economics and Statistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2017

The focal point of this study is to investigate infant mortality among countries classified by three groups using k-means approach with respect to their economic and demographic indicators. Panel stationarity tests, cointegration, FMOLS, DOLS, panel causality tests have been conducted throughout this study to find out the possible determinants of infant mortality. The empirical findings reveal that infant mortality rate is a stationary process for pools with high-developed and mid-developed countries, but non-stationary for less developed. Another important finding is that the share of health expenditures is found to be the main determinant which have dynamic significant relationship on infant mortality rate in the long-run among countries with low economic indicators. Granger panel causality test with individual coefficients mirrors approves the causality between these phenomena.

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