Democracy, commodity price booms, and infant mortality

Germán Bet () and Cecilia Peluffo ()
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Germán Bet: University of Florida
Cecilia Peluffo: University of Florida

Empirical Economics, 2023, vol. 64, issue 1, No 7, 153-193

Abstract: Abstract We examine whether commodity price booms affect infant mortality differently according to a country’s democratic status. Using data for 171 countries over the period 1962–2010, we estimate dynamic panel models for infant mortality and use alternative approaches to control for the potential endogeneity of a country’s democratic status. We find that upon experiencing a commodity price boom, democracies are able to achieve significant reductions in infant mortality rates (by approximately 0.15% on average), whereas non-democracies are not.

Keywords: Infant mortality; Democracy; Commodity prices; Economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F63 I15 O11 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-022-02251-3

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