Effect of democratic reforms on child mortality: a synthetic control analysis

Background: The effects of political regimes on health are unclear because empirical evidence is neither strong nor robust. Traditional econometric tools do not allow the direction of causality to be established clearly. We used a new method to investigate whether political transition into democracy...

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Main Authors: Dr. Hannah Pieters, MSc, Daniele Curzi, PhD, Alessandro Olper, PhD, Johan Swinnen, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X16301048