Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - In: International Tax and Public Finance 28 (2021) 2, pp. 323-363
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed …–30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP than their autocratic counterparts. An instrumental variable approach … government health expenditure within a short period after regime transition. Democratic rule, however, does not turn out to …