Where do people live longer?

Oyèkọ́lá, Ọláyínká

doi:10.1016/j.rie.2020.10.010

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“…1 A similar view was noted by Cutler et al, (2006, p. 97): "The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them." This was also quoted in Oyèkọĺá (2021), who provided a piece of historical evidence on the powerful effect of European colonial migration strategies on the current health status of non-European countries. We have centred on death-related indicators in this paper, although Deaton noted that escape from "poverty and death" are the great escapes in human history.…”

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Democracy Does Improve Health

Oyèkọ́lá

2023

Soc Indic Res

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In this paper, we study the extent to which the spread of democracy affects country-level health outcomes in 115 countries, between 1960 and 2015. To do this, we use both the level and change measures of democracy in our regressions, concentrating on within-country variations. Our finding is that a one standard deviation increase of 0.35 in the level of democracy is associated with a 0.11 standard deviation increase in life expectancy, even after accounting for various country and time features. This corresponds to an increase in life expectancy of around 5 years for a country initially, with a mean life expectancy of 54 years. However, we do not find the change measure of democracy to be consistently influential. These results are robust to employing alternative model specifications, to using different subsamples of the data, and to alternative estimation techniques. We also find that these critical effects are retained when using other measures of health status. In particular, we observe that as the level of democracy rises, each of infant mortality, child mortality, and crude death decreases. We, therefore, conclude that the material role of democratic institutions in fostering population health is of first-order relevance.

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Democracy Does Improve Health

Oyèkọ́lá

2023

Soc Indic Res

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A cross-country analysis of the roles of border openness, human capital and legal institutions in explaining economic development

Oyèkọ́lá

2021

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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Globalisation, human capital, and institutions have been widely recognised in the literature to be causally important for economic development. Most of the available studies, however, treat measures of these determinants either separately or as substitutes. In this paper, we study the income effects of border openness to migration, education, and the rule of law (our proxies for globalisation, human capital, and institutions, respectively). Using cross-country data covering all regions of the world, and employing instrumental variables for all three factors, we establish that they each have a robust, positive, and strong association with economic development. We then consider whether there are any useful interrelations between the three factors in explaining income. On the interaction effects, the results show that the impact on income of: (i) migration can be materially affected by cultivating good institutions but this effect is not dependent on the education level; (ii) education is important irrespective of the levels of migration and institutions; and (iii) institutions is significantly improved by raising the level of education but is not influenced by migration level. Our paper makes a significant contribution as the first investigation into the effects of migration, education, and institutions jointly and as complements.

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Persistence of Religious States

Oyèkọ́lá

2021

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Where do people live longer?

Cited by 5 publications

References 88 publications

Democracy Does Improve Health

Democracy Does Improve Health

A cross-country analysis of the roles of border openness, human capital and legal institutions in explaining economic development

Persistence of Religious States

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