start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. Panel regressions …

and infant or child mortality. Aggregate data are used for nine European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. Year … relationship between leave durations and post-neonatal mortality or fatalities between the first and fifth birthday than for … perinatal mortality, neonatal deaths, or the incidence of low birth weight. The evidence further suggests that parental leave …

and infant or child mortality. Aggregate data are used for nine European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. Year … relationship between leave durations and post-neonatal mortality or fatalities between the first and fifth birthday than for … perinatal mortality, neonatal deaths, or the incidence of low birth weight. The evidence further suggests that parental leave …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …