Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, and Health Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Institutions, Health, under-5 mortality rate, Sub-Saharan AfricaAbstract
The paper investigates the effects of institutions on health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike previous studies that focused on a single institution, we assume that several institutions improve health. We include four indicators of institution quality (i.e. democracy, regulation, property rights, and size of State) as explanatory factors for health in a sample of 22 countries over the period 2002-2016. The Two-Stage Least Square approach is privileged for estimations. The results show that institutions have positive effects on health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three institutional indicators namely democracy, property rights, and regulation reduce the under-5-morality rate. These results indicate that Sub-Saharan African countries should focus on strengthening democracy, property rights, and regulation by well-functioning of the legal and judicial system to boost health.
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