How time horizons of autocrats impact health expenditure: a mixed methods research.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A country's spending on healthcare significantly improves its population health status. No comparative study has examined how the threat perceived by leaders influences health expenditure and cross-national analyses of authoritarian regimes. The objectives of this study are to examine how time horizons of autocrats influence health expenditure. METHODS:We designed a mixed methods research approach. First, the study used panel data from 1995 to 2010 covering 95 countries (n = 1208) and applied fixed effects regression models. As a proxy for time horizons, the study generated the predicted survival time for each regime-year using parametric survival analysis and the predictors to model regime failure. Second, we chose Chad, Rwanda and Ivory Coast to apply synthetic control methods

SUBMITTER: Yan HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7216651 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature