Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes

Krieger, Tommy

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“…We also assume that the members of a specific group are identical. 5 Consequently, we can interchangeably speak 4 Some studies distinguish between two types of elites that split along economic interests (see, e.g., Galor et al 2009;Krieger 2022;Llavador and Oxoby 2005). We do not follow these studies since such a differentiation would increase the complexity of our model, but would hardly change the model's key predictions.…”

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Democracy and the Quality of Economic Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Krieger¹

2022

SSRN Journal

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2022

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“…The way of how we model the decision of the government resembles the approach by.4 Some studies distinguish between two types of elites that split along economic interests (see, e.g.,Galor et al, 2009;Krieger, 2022;Llavador and Oxoby, 2005). We do not follow these studies since such a differentiation would increase the complexity of our model, but would hardly change the model's key predictions.5 Assuming within-group homogeneity significantly simplifies the model.…”

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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence

Krieger

2022

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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality increases in people’s human capital. Using a panel data set that covers 150 countries and the period from 1920 to 2019, and different measures of economic institutional quality, we show results from fixed effect and instrumental variable regressions that are in line with the predictions of our model.

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The global sanitary revolution in historical perspective

Gallardo‐Albarrán

2024

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This survey sheds light on the causes and consequences of the global sanitary revolution that resulted in the spread of waterworks and sewerage projects since the middle of the 19th century, by drawing on research from the fields of economic history, economics, and history. I begin with a discussion of the construction of these infrastructures during the period ca. 1850–1950 showing that their spread was relatively similar in major urban cities across the globe, while diffusion within and between countries, as well as within cities themselves, was markedly unequal. Second, I review research estimating the mortality impact of access to clean water and sanitation. Following the provision of these services, infant mortality declined between ca. 10 and 30 percent. Lastly, I examine the drivers of the sanitary revolution with a new framework that distinguishes between proximate factors (e.g., physical capital) and ultimate factors (e.g., institutions). I argue that the state of knowledge in the literature is insufficient to explain between‐ and within country differences in access to sanitary services and that more attention should be devoted to the interaction of political and economic factors within broader institutional, cultural and biogeographic contexts.

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Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes

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Democracy and the Quality of Economic Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Democracy and the Quality of Economic Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: theory and evidence

The global sanitary revolution in historical perspective

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