Presenter: Faqin
Lin
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, School of International trade and
Economics, CUFE
Topic: Trade,
Institution Quality and Child Health
Abstract
This paper examines the effects that trade have on
child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) designated by the United
Nations.
To solve the endogeneity of trade, we use Lin and Sim (2013)
construction of trade cost based on Baltic Dry Index (BDI) as instruments of
trade. We find that the expansion in trade leads to an increase in child
mortality rate in autocracies but to no significant effect in democracies. To
explain this finding, we show that in autocracies trade leads to a statistically
significant and quantitatively large effect on environment degradation. In
democracies on the other hand, environment does not deteriorate significantly
after the expansion of trade.
Time: 16:00-17:30,
Dec 6th, 2013
Location: General
Room 2, 2nd Floor, Zhongcai Building, CUFE
