We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy …. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of … law is the most important area of economic freedom for legitimacy. In addition, the results also indicate that democracies …