Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to...

1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring Health -- 3. Measuring Inequality -- 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? -- 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions -- 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Made From Group Averages? -- 7. Income Inequality...

This paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within-country inequality. Using information on disposable and market income inequality and data on overall social spending, and health and education spending from the ILO and the World Bank/WHO, we analyze...