title: An empirical assessment of the relationship between Official Development Aid and child mortality, 2000-2015.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the effect of Official Development Aid (ODA) dollars on child mortality over the course of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals initiative.
  
  
  METHODS
  The relationship between child mortality and Official Development Aid over the duration of the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) is examined here using a longitudinal panel of country-level data from the World Bank and the United Nations. An Ordinary Least Squares regression approach was used with country-level fixed effects. Models were estimated for the full sample and by Human Development Index development strata (high, medium, and low developed countries) with clustered standard errors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ODA appears to be most strongly associated with decreases in child mortality in Medium Developed Countries. Every one dollar per capita increase in ODA is associated with a 0.035 decrease in child deaths per 1000 births.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant gains were made in decreasing child mortality over the last 15 years. The need for more progress remains. Allocation of ODA to developing countries can be an effective policy tool in achieving public health goals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia, 100 Foster Road, 211 B Wright Hall, Washington, DC, 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Taylor Fahy
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Winkleman
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia, 100 Foster Road, 211D Wright Hall, Washington, DC, 30602, USA. gbagwell@uga.edu.
authors.forename: Grace Bagwell
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D046688:Child Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019049:Developed Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D036262:Empirical Research; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007391:International Cooperation; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D014480:United Nations / Q000191:economics*
keywords: Child mortality; Millennium Development Goals; Official Development Aid; Public health