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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
Appointing or electing professionals to be public officials is a double-edged sword. Experts can use their rich knowledge to implement reforms, but they can also favor their own profession. In this study, we compare physician-trained state health ministers to ministers of other professions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214544
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
Appointing or electing professionals to be public officials is a double-edged sword. Experts can use their rich knowledge to implement reforms, but they can also favor their own profession. In this study, we compare physician-trained state health ministers to ministers of other professions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432
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Politicians' In-Utero Health Shocks, Human Capital, Preferences, and Career and Governance Outcomes : The Case of City Party Secretaries in China
Shi, Xiangyu - 2022
In this paper, I provide an empirical and theoretical analysis on whether and how in-utero negative health shocks affect politicians' human capital and career and governance outcomes, using Chinese Great Famine (1959-1961) and Chinese city Party Secretaries as a case in point. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296988
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504502
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Globalization and child health in developing countries : the role of democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392832
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050566
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818421
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The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374648
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Voting, contagion and the trade-off between public health and political rights: quasi-experimental evidence from the Italian 2020 polls
Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2021
We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604414