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The Impact of Regime Type on Food Consumption in Low Income Countries

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  • Kolleen Rask

    (Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross)

  • Norman Rask

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, The Ohio State University)

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Competing studies use food consumption to measure the impact of political regime on the welfare of the poor. Democracies may outperform autocracies by using growth to hide redistribution, improving caloric consumption and currying favor. Alternatively, autocracies may have greater incentives to lower food prices to quell urban unrest. We test these competing theories using a more detailed, continuous, nuanced measure of food consumption quality � cereal equivalent values. We find evidence to support the second hypothesis, that autocracies outperform democracies at low incomes. For higher incomes, democracies perform significantly better. Segregated by growth, autocracies again outperform democracies at low incomes.

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  • Kolleen Rask & Norman Rask, 2017. "The Impact of Regime Type on Food Consumption in Low Income Countries," Working Papers 1709, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hcx:wpaper:1709
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    Keywords

    food consumption; food cost; political regime; cereal equivalents;
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    JEL classification:

    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • P51 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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