Brito Steve, Corbacho Ana, Osorio Rene
International Monetary Fund, 700 19th St NW, Washington, DC, 20431, USA.
Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20577, USA.
Health Econ Rev. 2017 Dec;7(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13561-017-0149-3. Epub 2017 Mar 23.
The consequences of lacking birth certificates remain largely unexplored in the economic literature. We intend to fill this knowledge gap studying the effect of lacking birth certificates on immunization of children in the Dominican Republic. This is an interesting country because a significant number of children of Haitian descent face the consequences of lacking proper documentation. We use the distance to the civil registry office and the mother's document of identification as instrumental variables of the child's birth certificate. After controlling for distance to immunization services and other determinants, this paper finds that children between 0 and 59 months of age that do not have birth certificates are behind by nearly one vaccine (out of a total of nine) compared to those that have birth certificates.
在经济文献中，缺乏出生证明的后果在很大程度上尚未得到探讨。我们打算通过研究缺乏出生证明对多米尼加共和国儿童免疫接种的影响来填补这一知识空白。这是一个有趣的国家，因为大量海地裔儿童面临缺乏适当文件证明的后果。我们将到民事登记处的距离和母亲的身份证件用作儿童出生证明的工具变量。在控制了到免疫服务机构的距离和其他决定因素之后，本文发现，与有出生证明的儿童相比，0至59个月大没有出生证明的儿童少接种了近一种疫苗（总共九种疫苗）。
