Replication Data for: Is Democracy Pro-poor? An Empirical Test of Sen Hypothesis with Worldwide Evidence

It has long been hypothesized that democracy benefits the poor; however, the hypothesis still lacks solid empirical evidence. This paper contributes to providing new worldwide evidence on the poverty reduction effect of democracy which we refer to as the Amartya Sen hypothesis. The difference-in-differences estimation using cross-national panel data on over 100 countries from 1995 to 2015 shows that democracy does reduce poverty, although the size of the effect varies to the poverty at different poverty lines. Further studies show that the poverty reduction effect of democracy is robust to a number of specifications and heterogeneous over time and to democratization types.