Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-13-2023
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Croft Institute for International Studies
First Advisor
Miguel Centellas
Second Advisor
Timothy Nordstrom
Third Advisor
Oliver Dinius
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
One of the primary goals from the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce maternal mortality on a global scale. It is well documented that economic success has a strong correlation with maternal mortality (Kirigia et al 2014, 1-3). There is ample research on how one’s health affects their ability to participate in society, furthermore protecting women within the sphere of medicine is a key part of advancing society. This thesis aims to give qualitative and quantitive backing to a deeper investigation of the correlation between economic success and maternal health.
To focus this research, the thesis focuses on European countries, from the years 2000-2017, with three different variables that measure economic success and control variables that might also explain the variance in maternal mortality, to strengthen results. The strong wealth effect that I expected to find in this study was not directly found with GDP per capita. The findings seem to be more nuanced in that the strong correlation was found between maternal mortality and the Economic Freedom Index. This was true in the multivariate panel regression test and the most different systems case study of Spain and Sweden. It is clear that Economic Freedom is a great index for measuring economic growth and income.
Recommended Citation
Wheelock, Kendall, "Our Mothers are Dying: How Economics Affect Maternal Mortality" (2023). Honors Theses. 3015.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3015
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