Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality

By Thomas D. Zweifel, Patricio D. Navia. 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions

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• Funding Self-Sustaining Development: The Role of Aid, FDI and Government in Economic Success (2006, background): “…development+28 23+ On primary school enrollment, see Brown 1999; on wages, see Przeworski et al+ 2000; or Rodrik 1999; on infant mortality, see Zweifel and Navia 2000+ 24+ Brown and Hunter 1999 discover that Latin American democracies spend more on social programs, especially in economic…”
• Is Democracy Good for the Poor (2006, background): “…of im-proving the welfare of the poor (Boone 1996; Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2003; Dasgupta 1993; Franco, Alvarez-Dardet, and Ruiz 2004; Lake and Baum 2001; McGuire 2001; Moon and Dixon 1985; Przeworski et al. 2000; Sen 1981, 1999; Siegle, Weinstein, and Halperin 2004; Zweifel and Navia 2000).”
• Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being (2004, background): “In a global sample, Zweifel and Navia (2000) find democracies have an infant mortality rate about 10 per thousand below that of comparable non-democracies.”