Volume 62, Issue 340, January - April 2026

Health-workers’ emigration and child health in Latin American and Caribbean countries

Ojarotade Adegbola^1♦, Oloniluyi Adeleye Ebenezer², Olanipekun Dayo Benedict³

¹Department of Economics, University of Ilesa, Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria
²Department of Economics, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
³Department of Economics, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

^♦Corresponding Author
Ojarotade Adegbola, Department of Economics, University of Ilesa, Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Background/Purpose: This research examines the influence that health workers’ emigration from Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACCs) to rich-income countries has on child health in LACCs. Methods: This work utilized the quantile regression estimation technique to analyze panel data between 1990 and 2021. Findings: Higher Number of Health Workers that emigrated LACCs’ (NHWE) from the empirical analysis of the two out of the three quantile results (1.568 and 2.812) were statistically detrimental to LACCs’ child health (development) at 1%. Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (GDPPC), and the DGGHE displayed negative results with CMR; two of the GDPPC results are statistically significant at 1%, while two of the DGGHE results are at 10% and 1%. The PDPC and GE displayed positive and negative results and only one negative result of the GE is statistically significant at 10%, while none of the PDPC is. Originality: Its genuineness stems from the new variables employed and the findings.

Keywords: Emigration, child health, health workers, and Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Discovery, 2026, 62, e12d3251

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v62i340.e12d3251

Published: 25 April 2026