Partisan Composition of County Governments & Constituent Public Health Outcomes

• In Event: Local Politics: Hiding in Plain Sight

Brief Overview

Using both within and between county research designs, we find that electing a local Republican majority leads to poorer health outcomes at the county-level across outcomes such as mortality rates, life expectancy, and lower public health spending.

Authors

• Carlos Andres Algara, Claremont Graduate University

• Javier M. Rodriguez, Claremont Graduate University

• Nasser Khalil, Claremont Graduate University