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      The impact of democracy and media freedom on under-5 mortality, 1961–2011

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      Author(s)
      Wigley, S.
      Akkoyunlu-Wigley, A.
      Date
      2017
      Source Title
      Social Science and Medicine
      Print ISSN
      0277-9536
      Publisher
      Elsevier Ltd
      Volume
      190
      Pages
      237 - 246
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Do democracies produce better health outcomes for children than autocracies? We argue that (1) democratic governments have an incentive to reduce child mortality among low-income families and (2) that media freedom enhances their ability to deliver mortality-reducing resources to the poorest. A panel of 167 countries for the years 1961–2011 is used to test those two theoretical claims. We find that level of democracy is negatively associated with under-5 mortality, and that that negative association is greater in the presence of media freedom. These results are robust to the inclusion of country and year fixed effects, time-varying control variables, and the multiple imputation of missing values.
      Keywords
      Country fixed effects
      Democracy
      Media freedom
      Panel data analysis
      Under-5 mortality
      Data analysis
      Democracy
      Human
      Mortality
      Sensitivity analysis
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/37325
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.023
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