The impact of democracy and media freedom on under-5 mortality, 1961-2011.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982-
    • Subject Terms:
      Democracy* ; Patient Outcome Assessment*; Child Mortality/*trends ; Mass Media/*standards; Child, Preschool ; Freedom ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Mass Media/trends
    • Abstract:
      Do democracies produce better health outcomes for children than autocracies? We argue that (1) democratic governments have an incentive to reduce child mortality among low-income families and (2) that media freedom enhances their ability to deliver mortality-reducing resources to the poorest. A panel of 167 countries for the years 1961-2011 is used to test those two theoretical claims. We find that level of democracy is negatively associated with under-5 mortality, and that that negative association is greater in the presence of media freedom. These results are robust to the inclusion of country and year fixed effects, time-varying control variables, and the multiple imputation of missing values.
      (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Country fixed effects; Democracy; Media freedom; Panel data analysis; Under-5 mortality
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20170905 Date Completed: 20180611 Latest Revision: 20180627
    • Publication Date:
      20231215
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.023
    • Accession Number:
      28869904