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Panel Data Analysis of Institutional Quality and Population Health Outcomes

Empirical Economic Review

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Title Statement Panel Data Analysis of Institutional Quality and Population Health Outcomes
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Rehmat, Sania
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq
Zainab, Abida
PhD Scholar, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Associate Professor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Research Assistant, Planning Commission and Development, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Summary, etc. This study investigates the institutional quality effect on population health outcomes. Explanatory variables are government stability, corruption, law and order, democratic accountability and bureaucracy quality. Whereas for the population health proxies are infant mortality rate and life expectancy. The sample of this study consist of 105 countries. Five years’ average data from 1984 to 2012 is taken from the Political Risk Services Group and World Development Indicators 2015. This study considers econometric techniques like Fixed Effects, Random Effects and GMM. Study findings indicate that population health is positively affected by the institutional quality that is increasing life expectancy and dropping infant mortality rate. Furthermore, GDP per capita, physician, and population density display a positive influence on life expectancy. The results propose that to achieve population better health outcomes, authorities must cautiously contemplate the quality of institutions.
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Department of Economics - University of Management and Technology
 
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https://ojs.umt.edu.pk/index.php/eer/article/view/435
 
Data Source Entry Empirical Economic Review; Vol 3 No 1 (2020): Summer 2020
 
Language Note eng
 
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