Consistencies and contradictions: Revisiting the relationship between women's education and infant mortality from a distributional perspective

Shorette, Kristen; Burroway, Rebekah

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102697

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“…Previous research finds that world society embeddedness has implications for related country-level health outcomes (e.g. Shorette and Burroway 2022;Mejia 2022a). I expect to find similar findings here.…”

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Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates

Mejia

2023

Comp. Sociol.

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Measles has long plagued human societies. Measles vaccines are highly effective in preventing this disease, but there are striking inequities in vaccination rates between developed and less-developed countries. Scholars have long argued that foreign investment dependence explains global inequities in development outcomes more broadly. The author argues that debt dependence is what matters for such empirical observations. He evaluates his argument using fixed effects panel regression models of 97 less-developed countries from 1990–2019. The empirical evidence supports his argument.

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Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates

Mejia

2023

Comp. Sociol.

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“…Numerous world society theory studies have expanded understanding of striking trends of global isomorphism in a wide range of domains (Cole 2005;Frank, Hardinge, and Wosick-Correa 2009;Frank, Hironaka, and Schofer 2000;Hironaka 2002;Meyer et al 1997;Negro and Longhofer 2018;Ramirez, Soysal, and Shanahan 1997;Schofer 2003;Zapp, Frank, and Marquez 2022). Other world society literature helps explain cross-national and longitudinal variations in environmental, social, and other outcomes (e.g., Cole, Schofer, and Velasco 2023;Hironaka 2014;Mejia 2020Mejia , 2021Pandian 2019;Schofer and Hironaka 2005;Shorette 2012;Shorette and Burroway 2022;Shandra et al 2010;Shandra et al 2011;Tester 2020;Hao 2016). An even more specific literature focuses on women's rights and gender equality in world society (Berkovitch 1999;Berkovitch and Bradley 1999;Cole 2013Cole , 2022Pandian 2019;Paxton, Hughes, and Green 2006;Swiss 2009).…”

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“…1997; Negro and Longhofer 2018; Ramirez, Soysal, and Shanahan 1997; Schofer 2003; Zapp, Frank, and Marquez 2022). Other world society literature helps explain cross‐national and longitudinal variations in environmental, social, and other outcomes (e.g., Cole, Schofer, and Velasco 2023; Hironaka 2014; Mejia 2020, 2021; Pandian 2019; Schofer and Hironaka 2005; Shorette 2012; Shorette and Burroway 2022; Shandra et al. 2010; Shandra et al.…”

Section: World Society Theorymentioning

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The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018

Mejia

2023

Social Science Quarterly

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ObjectiveThis research investigates the impact of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation across a sample of developed and developing countries, and at the global level.MethodsI estimate fixed effects panel regression models with robust standard errors clustered by country.ResultsI consistently find that liberal world society embeddedness helps explain cross‐national and longitudinal variations in women's legislative representation across all three country samples, while illiberal world society ties matter at the global level.ConclusionThis analysis highlights the role of world culture in explaining the worldwide expansion of women's legislative representation across country development levels.

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“…Abreha and Zereyesus [ 32 ] pointed out a positive connection between women's empowerment by education and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on an empirical analysis of 153 countries from 1970 to 2016, Shorette and Burroway [ 33 ] found a distribution-specific advantage of women's education in reducing infant mortality; the significant impact is limited to the range of infant mortality rates from 11 to 55 deaths per 1000 live births.…”

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The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Health Outcomes: A Mediating Effect Analysis Based on Cross‐National Panel Data

Shao

Fan

Huang

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Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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When ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies) are combined with healthcare, they can make a key contribution to gradually improve national health outcomes. The global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 further highlighted the important role of e-Health and m-Health service modes. This research structures a mediated effect model to explore dynamic relationships between ICT factors, ICT impacts, and national health outcomes, among which ICT factors are independent variables; ICT impacts are mediating variables, and national health outcome indicators selected from United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and World Development Indicators are dependent variables. The fixed effect model is used to process a set of 141 countries’ panel data from 2012 to 2016 from World Bank and World Economic Forum, while the classical three-step test method and Sobel test combined with fixed effects are used to test the mediated effects of the panel data. The results show that there are significant associations between ICT factors and national health outcome indicators, while only some of the partial mediated effects are proved. ICT environment and ICT usage can influence both the under-five mortality rate and adolescent fertility rate via ICT social impact. However, the mediated effect of ICT social impact on maternal mortality ratio and life expectancy at birth has not been confirmed. Meanwhile, the mediated effect of ICT economic impact has not been proven. This research is an interdisciplinary research in the field of information and communication technology and public health and reveals the path and mechanism whereby ICT factors improve national health outcomes, which can help global policymakers drive the next phase of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and continue to improve the overall health at the national level.

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Consistencies and contradictions: Revisiting the relationship between women's education and infant mortality from a distributional perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 107 publications

Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates

Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates

The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018

The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Health Outcomes: A Mediating Effect Analysis Based on Cross‐National Panel Data

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