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Less stunted? The impact of Chinese health aid on child nutrition

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Despite the increasing recognition of China's role as a global health donor, particularly in Africa, few studies have explored its effectiveness. We geographically matched project-level aid data from AidData with household survey data from Demographic and Health Surveys across eight African countries to examine the effect of Chinese health aid on the nutritional status of children in recipient countries. In addition to adopting a spatiotemporal identification strategy, we also included mother fixed-effects to examine variations among siblings who were exposed to Chinese health aid projects at different times. The empirical results consistently indicated that children living adjacent to Chinese health aid projects had a better nutritional status. The treatment effect of Chinese health aid projects is heterogeneous across household characteristics, types, and sectors of aid projects. Finally, vaccination may serve as a mechanism linking Chinese health aid and child nutrition in the treatment areas of recipient countries.

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  • Li, Jia, 2024. "Less stunted? The impact of Chinese health aid on child nutrition," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 342(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:342:y:2024:i:c:s0277953624000030
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116559
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