Health and democracy

American Economic Review

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 313-318

  Besley, Timothy ^d   Kudamatsu, Masayuki ^d   Merlo, Antonio ^a   Olken, Benjamin ^b   Nunn, Nathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DEMOCRACY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33744507648     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/000282806777212053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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