Political Reforms and Food Security

Hannah Pieters, Daniele Curzi, Alessandro Olper and Johan Swinnen

No 173092, 2014 Third Congress, June 25-27, 2014, Alghero, Italy from Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA)

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of a political regime transition on food security and more specifically on child mortality. Using a new estimation approach, the Synthetic Control Method, we find that a political reform towards a democracy does not systematically reduce child mortality. Of the 33 country case studies, we find a significant and positive relation between food security and political reforms for 4 countries, while for the remaining 29 countries no impact was found. These results are in contrast with the results from the traditional difference-in-difference estimations

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.173092

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