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The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak
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In this article, the authors investigated whether political incentives affect the government's response during a health epidemic and the subsequent effects on citizens' voting behavior in the context of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2021-06-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Voting behavior.read more
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Intergovernmental grants as a tactical instrument : empirical evidence from Swedish municipalities / Eva Johansson
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution of intergovernmental grants from the central to the local government level is studied, and a new method of estimating the number of swing voters is proposed to win votes.
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Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the first pandemic of the 21st century: the 2009 H1N1 outbreak in Mexico and found a statistically significant negative, small but persistent, effect of local epidemic outbreaks on the electoral performance of the governing party.
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The epidemic effect: Epidemics, institutions and human capital development
TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of sudden exposure to epidemics on human capital outcomes using evidence from the African meningitis belt and found that children born in such areas are 10 percentage points (pp) less stunted and 8.2 pp less underweight than their peers born in non-epidemic years.
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An evolving threat to life and livelihoods: comparing the health, economic and political implications of the first two waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums
TL;DR: In this article , the economic and health impacts of the first two major waves of the pandemic in Bengaluru and Patna, as well as respondents' attitudes towards the government's response are investigated.
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Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too
Noémie Zurlinden,Philine Widmer +1 more
TL;DR: This article found evidence for ethnic motives playing a role in favoritism but not (short-run) electoral motives, and showed that co-regional health ministers also increase healthcare access at birth, particularly for vulnerable mothers.
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