Which freedoms benefit the poor? A two-horse race between economic and political freedoms on health-adjusted life expectancy and child mortality, 1990–2020

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI:10.1002/jid.3931

Ingrid Holthe Helmersen, Indra de Soysa

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Abstract

We examine theoretically and empirically whether democratic rights might be superior to economic rights in a two-horse race, utilizing indicators of poverty reduction, such as health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) and child mortality as outcomes. The results show robustly that economic freedoms associate positively with HALE and negatively with child mortality, while the effect of democracy is more mixed. Studies reporting a negative effect of political freedoms on child mortality without accounting for economic freedoms, thus, are potentially mis-specified. These results are robust to a barrage of tests, alternative data, estimating method and formal tests of omitted variables bias.

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哪些自由有利于穷人？1990-2020 年经济自由和政治自由对健康调整后预期寿命和儿童死亡率的双雄角逐

我们利用健康调整后预期寿命（HALE）和儿童死亡率等减贫指标作为结果，从理论和实证角度研究了在双马竞赛中民主权利是否优于经济权利。结果有力地表明，经济自由与预期寿命呈正相关，与儿童死亡率呈负相关，而民主的影响则好坏参半。因此，在没有考虑经济自由的情况下，报告政治自由对儿童死亡率有负面影响的研究有可能是错误的。这些结果经受住了一系列检验、替代数据、估算方法以及对遗漏变量偏差的正式检验。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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