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100			_93814 _aCosta Font, Joan
245		0	_aDoes exposure to democracy decrease health inequality? _c Joan Costa-Font and Niklas Knust
500			_aResumen
504			_aBibliografía.
520			_aExposure to (a liberal) democracy can have an impact on both the political attention and visibility of the needs of marginalized populations, as well as the design of health policies that can influence the distribution of population health. This paper investigates the effect of exposure to democracy, that is, the number of years spent in a democracy as measured by democracy indexes, on various measures of inequality in self-reported health across European countries. We use an instrumental variable strategy to leverage the potential endogeneity of a country’s exposure to democracy, drawing on both bivariate (socioeconomic) and univariate health inequality measures. Our estimates provide evidence that an additional year in a democracy reduces both bivariate (income-related) health inequality and overall (univariate) health inequality. Our preferred specification suggests a two-point rank reduction in inequality with an additional year under a democracy. The effect is mainly driven by a reduction of “health poverty” alongside other effects.
650		4	_941808 _aDEMOCRACIA
650		4	_948069 _aPOLITICA SANITARIA
650		4	_931104 _aASISTENCIA SANITARIA
650		4	_942588 _aDESIGUALDAD
700	1		_971629 _aKnust, Niklas
773	0		_9171579 _oOP 1793/2023/4 _tJournal of Public Policy _w(IEF)17584 _x 0143-814X _g v. 43, issue 4, December 2023, p. 741-760
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