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

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dc.citation.epage246en_US
dc.citation.spage237en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber190en_US
dc.contributor.authorWigley, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkkoyunlu-Wigley, A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T11:10:15Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T11:10:15Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.description.abstractDo 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.en_US
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dc.embargo.release2020-10-01en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.023en_US
dc.identifier.issn0277-9536
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/37325
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherElsevier Ltden_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.023en_US
dc.source.titleSocial Science and Medicineen_US
dc.subjectCountry fixed effectsen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectMedia freedomen_US
dc.subjectPanel data analysisen_US
dc.subjectUnder-5 mortalityen_US
dc.subjectData analysisen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectHumanen_US
dc.subjectMortalityen_US
dc.subjectSensitivity analysisen_US
dc.titleThe impact of democracy and media freedom on under-5 mortality, 1961–2011en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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