health and democracy (with tim besley)

 

  1. Summary: Life expectancy at birth is higher in democracies than in autocracies though democratization in a country may or may not increase life expectancy at birth. 

  2. Click here for replication files

  3. The working paper version (including more robustness checks, more references and the data appendix)

  4. Academic citations:

  5. Acemoglu and Robinson (2007), Marmot (2006), Rainer and Siedler (2006), Stasavage (2006), Bandiera and Levy (2007).

  6. Non-academic citations:

  7. ‣Millenium Challenge Corporation (2007).

  8. Academic course reading list citations:

  9. ‣Department of Economics at NYU

  10. ‣Centre for the Future State.