Peer-reviewed article
The Heterogeneous Effects of Illiberal World Society on Child Health, 1960–2024
Steven Andrew Mejia ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This study asks how countries' links to illiberal world culture relate to child mortality. It uses country-year data from around the world covering 1960 to 2024 and fixed-effects panel regression models. Membership in illiberal intergovernmental organizations and a higher global density of such organizations are linked to lower child mortality. A higher global share of autocracies is linked to higher child mortality. The author concludes that illiberal world-cultural structures have mixed consequences for child health.
Key points
- Affiliations with illiberal intergovernmental organizations are associated with declines in child mortality.
- The global density of illiberal intergovernmental organizations is associated with declines in child mortality.
- A higher global proportion of autocracies is associated with increased child mortality.
- Illiberal world-cultural structures have heterogeneous consequences for child health.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so effect sizes, the countries covered, data sources and how causal the findings are cannot be judged. Panel regression shows associations, and the abstract does not report any evaluation of a specific intervention.
Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective This study theorizes how and empirically analyzes the extent linkages to illiberal world culture shape child mortality. Methods I test these arguments using fixed‐effects panel regression models of worldwide country‐year data from 1960 to 2024. Results Affiliations with illiberal intergovernmental organizations and the global density of these organizations are associated with declines in child mortality. In contrast, a higher global proportion of autocracies is associated with increased child mortality. Conclusion Illiberal world‐cultural structures have heterogeneous consequences for child health. These findings offer a new explanation for cross‐national and longitudinal variation in child mortality and explore the boundaries of the emerging literature on the post‐liberal turn in world society.