A New View on The Socio-Economic Factor In Child Mortality Asymmetric ARDL Provides New Evidence for Developing Country SDGs Achievement
Keywords:
Climate change, education, water sanitation, environmental health, child mortality, developing countries, sustainabilityAbstract
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explain the link between child mortality and education, environmental health, water sanitation, and climate change. It seeks to manage and reduce child mortality by detailing why and how education, climate change, and environmental factors are crucial in lowering child mortality during a five-year period. The study intends to broaden the realm of child mortality reduction by integrating a water sanitation and health component not commonly identified in the literature.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper for an exploratory research between 1996 and 2020 utilising the Asymmetric Auto Regressive Distributed Model (ARDL). Long-run co-integration results suggest that Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) is appropriate for examining the short-run connection between the modelled variables. The information comes from the World Development Indicator (WDI), which covers seven developing countries: Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Findings – According to the study, access to improved water and sanitation facilities, environmental health, and climate change all have a substantial and negative impact on child survival. Furthermore, the study looked at the impact of schooling on child mortality.
Research limitations/implications – The chosen research technique may limit the generalizability of the study findings. As a result, researchers are encouraged to examine the presented hypotheses further.
Practical implications – This report advises policymakers and international organisations that in order to fulfil the needed rate of child mortality, households should have access to clean water and sanitation services. Furthermore, the report suggests that the government adjust environmental and educational policies in order to reduce child mortality.
Originality/value – The major objectives of the study are to construct a extrapolative exemplary for under-5 mortality and to categorize important hazard variables connected with under-5 deaths using nationwide demonstrative facts on kids under-5.
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