Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes?

Christian Bjørnskov and Jacob Mchangama
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Jacob Mchangama: Center for Political Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: While the United Nations and NGOs are pushing for global judicialization of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs), little is known of their consequences. We provide evidence of the effects of introducing three types of ESCRs into the constitution: the rights to education, health and social security. Employing a large panel covering annual data from 160 countries in the period 1960-2010, we find no robust evidence of positive effects of ESCRs. We do, however, document adverse medium-term effects on education and inflation.

Keywords: Human rights; human development; constitutional political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 K19 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52
Date: 2013-09-10
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