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Elites and health infrastructure improvements in industrializing regimes

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers' movements to study why elites in … industrializing countries implement policies that improve the health of the poor. Exploiting county-level variation in elite structure …, we present OLS and IV estimates, suggesting that elites improve access to health services due to pressure exerted by …

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Using machine learning for measuring democracy : an update

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of Political Economy). Four improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a...

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Should we care (more) about data aggregation? : evidence from the democracy-growth-nexus

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2019

We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic regimes and too unfavorable for democratic regimes....

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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018

We present a new aggregation method - called SVM algorithm - and use this technique to produce novel measures of democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and has three notable features: it makes functional...

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