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Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for Variables Included in the Analysis

From: For the children? A mixed methods analysis of World Bank structural adjustment loans, health projects, and infant mortality in Latin America

  Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
Dependent Variable
 Infant Mortality Rate (aged under one years old, per 1000 live births) 24.01 13.06 7.8 85.6
Independent Variables
 World Bank Structural Adjustment Loan (SAL) 0.22 0.41 0 1
 Inverse Mills Ratio 2.42 1.48 0.02 6.37
 World Bank Health Project 0.71 0.45 0 1
Controls
 Public Health Spending per capita (logged, current US$) 4.50 1.12 0.86 6.92
 % of the Population Using Basic Sanitation Services 74.40 17.26 16.75 97.27
 GDP per capita, PPP (logged, current international $) 8.88 0.61 7.22 9.91
 Democracy Score 7.27 2.32 -3 10
 Net FDI (hundreds of millions, current US$) −4.67 11.78 −90.49 9.42
 Trade (total volume of exports plus imports, % of GDP) 69.12 32.00 21.85 206.77
 Year 2007.51 4.57 2000 2015
  1. Source: World Development Indicators, Polity IV, World Bank Projects Database (author coded)
  2. Notes: Sample size is 279 country-years in 18 countries over 16 years (data is unbalanced panel data)