Does democracy help babies survive in sub-Saharan Africa? By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 28 African countries, I compare the survival of infants born to the same mother before and after democratization to identify the effect of democracy. In measuring democracy, I adopt a...

In an ethnically diverse country, does it matter to the welfare of ordinary citizens which ethnic group is in power? This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the ethnicity of the president of Guinea in 1984 to identify the effect of living under the rule of a national leader of the...

Does democracy help babies survive in sub-Saharan Africa? By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 28 African countries, I compare the survival of infants born to the same mother before and after democratization to identify the effect of democracy. In measuring democracy, I adopt a...