Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Affect The Under-5 Mortality Rates

The goal of this study is to examine how total healthcare spending and the use of conditional cash transfer programs affect the under-5 mortality rate across different countries. The response variable is the under-5 mortality rate in each country. This is measured by the number of deaths of children under 5 years old per 1,000 lives births. The numerical explanatory variable is the total health care expenditure by each country. This includes both the public and private health care expenditures in the country per capita measured in US dollars. I anticipate an inverse relationship between health care expenditures and under-5 mortality. I expect as spending increases, the under-5 mortality rate will decline and then level off. The categorical