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HAS DEMOCRATIZATION REDUCED INFANT MORTALITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA? EVIDENCE FROM MICRO DATA
Abstract
Does democracy help babies survive in sub-Saharan Africa? By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 28 African countries, I compare the survival of infants born to the same mother before and after democratization to disentangle the effect of democracy from that of changes in population characteristics, which is infeasible with country-level statistics on infant mortality. I find that infant mortality falls by 1.2 percentage points, |$12\% $| of the sample mean, after democratization in the post-Cold War period. Relevant aspects of democracy appear to be the combination of multiparty elections and leadership change.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kudamatsu, M.
- Affiliations
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Kudamatsu, Masayuki
- ORCID
- Kudamatsu, Masayuki
- Venue
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-08-28
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1294-1317
- ISSN
- 1542-4766 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2007372263
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 93
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- FWCI
- 18.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the European Economic Association (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Development
- Keywords
- democratization, infant mortality, infant survival, sub-Saharan Africa, multiparty elections, leadership change, post-Cold War, political institutions
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