Costa-Font, Joan and Kossarova, Lucia (2014) Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up. CESifo working papers, 5081. CESifo Group, Munich, Germany.
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Abstract
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks and the Czechs did not change. Slovaks benefited more than the Czechs in the bottom and mid tercile.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O52 - Europe |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) Research centres and groups > LSE Health and Social Care Research centres and groups > LSE Health |
| Identification Number: | 5081 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2015 15:29 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60719/ |
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