Health and political regimes: Evidence from quantile regression
Health and political regimes: Evidence from quantile regression
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.06.003
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
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3.1
通讯作者：
Okada, Keisuke
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作者：
Okada, Keisuke
这项研究调查了政治制度如何影响健康状况，如婴儿和儿童死亡率和预期寿命，使用1960年至2013年期间观察的180个国家的数据。面板分位数回归用于检查在整个健康结果分布的不同间隔的影响。估计结果表明，民主对健康结果有显着的积极影响，当健康结果越差，其影响越大。这些结果对不同的民主和健康指数都是稳健的。还考虑了不同类型的民主和君主制的影响，即议会民主、混合（半总统制）民主和总统制民主，以及文职、军事和皇家君主制。在健康结果的最差分位数中，议会形式的民主对健康结果的积极影响最大，尽管三种民主的影响差异不一定很大。此外，所有类型的独裁都对健康结果产生负面影响，军事独裁的后果最严重，健康结果也最差。最后，当健康结果变差时，民主化对健康结果的影响是显着的。
This study investigates how political regimes affect health conditions such as infant and child mortality rates and life expectancy using data from 180 countries observed between 1960 and 2013. Panel quantile regression is used to examine the effects at different intervals throughout the distribution of health outcomes. The estimation results indicate that democracy has significant positive effects on health outcomes and that its impacts are greater when health outcomes are worse. These results are robust to different democracy and health indices. The effects of different types of democracies and dictatorships are also considered, that is parliamentary, mixed (semi-presidential) and presidential democracies, and civilian, military and royal dictatorships. The parliamentary form of democracy has the largest positive impact on health outcomes at the worst quantile of health outcomes, although the difference in the impacts of the three types of democracies is not necessarily large. Furthermore, all types of dictatorships have a negative impact on health outcomes, with military dictatorship having the worst outcome when health outcomes are worse. Finally, the effects of democratization on health outcomes are significantly positive when the health outcomes are worse.