@article{Jorgenson_Rice_2012, title={Urban Slums and Children’s Health in Less-Developed Countries}, volume={18}, url={https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/483}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2012.483}, abstractNote={We utilize first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slumprevalence on national level measures of under-5 mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005.Utilizing data on 80 less developed countries, the results illustrate increasing urban slumprevalence over the period is a robust predictor of increasing child mortality rates. This effectobtains net the statistically significant influence of gross domestic product per capita, fertilityrate, and educational enrollment. Cross-sectional analyses for 2005 that include additionalcontrols provide further evidence of the mortality / urban slum relationship. The results confirmurban slum prevalence growth is an important contextual dynamic whereby the socialproduction of child mortality is enacted in the less developed countries.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of World-Systems Research}, author={Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Rice, James}, year={2012}, month={Feb.}, pages={103–115} }