Arbeitspapier

Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes

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We collect information about more than 5,000 Prussian politicians, digitize administrative data on the provision of health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers' movements to study why elites in industrializing countries implement policies that improve the health of the poor. Exploiting county-level variation in elite structure, we present OLS and IV estimates, suggesting that elites improve access to health services due to pressure exerted by workers' movements and that they voluntarily implement policies that prevent disease outbreaks. An analysis of two rollcall votes substantiates the findings of the county-level analysis.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9808

Classification
Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Publicly Provided Private Goods
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Health and Economic Development
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Institutions and Growth
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Subject
distribution of power
elite structure
industrializing countries
political economy of health-promoting policies
Prussian history
redistribution
workers' movements

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Krieger, Tommy
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2022

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Krieger, Tommy
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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