Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919 and J. Hatton, Timothy (2022) Voting up? The effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature. Economica, 89 (353). 161 - 190. ISSN 0013-0427
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Abstract
We study the effect of the spread of democracy on population health in 15 European countries since the middle of the 19th century, and more specifically the average height of adult males by five-year birth cohort, and we estimate the effect of transitions to democracy using within-country variation. We find that the advent of democracy increased average height by about 0.7 cm. When we also account for the extension of the franchise to women, this increases to 1 cm or about 9% of the total increase in height of birth cohorts from the 1870s to the 1970s. Intervening mechanisms include reduced inequality and increased expenditure on social and health services. Our results are robust to a wide range of econometric tests.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680335 |
Additional Information: | © 2021 The London School of Economics and Political Science |
Divisions: | Health Policy |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
JEL classification: | H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H10 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J18 - Public Policy |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2021 09:06 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2024 06:33 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111606 |
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