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 …

The present paper draws the attention of political scientists towards the participation of the European Parliament in … aims at knowing whether and, in the positive case, why the members of the Parliament mainly backed the management decisions …