Political Regime and COVID 19 death rate: efficient, biasing or simply different autocracies ?

• Tác giả: Guilhem Cassan, Milan Van Steenvoort
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 321 Systems of governments and states
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 166057

Tóm tắt

The difference in COVID 19 death rates across political regimes has caught a lot of attention. The "efficient autocracy" view suggests that autocracies may be more efficient at putting in place policies that contain COVID 19 spread. On the other hand, the "biasing autocracy" view underlines that autocracies may be under reporting their COVID 19 data. We use fixed effect panel regression methods to discriminate between the two sides of the debate. Our results show that a third view may in fact be prevailing: once pre-determined characteristics of countries are accounted for, COVID 19 death rates equalize across political regimes. The difference in death rate across political regime seems therefore to be primarily due to omitted variable bias.