Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263738 
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Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9808
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
distribution of power
elite structure
industrializing countries
political economy of health-promoting policies
Prussian history
redistribution
workers' movements
JEL: 
H11
H42
H75
I15
N33
O43
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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