The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization

The determinants of compliance with human rights treaties likely vary according to the right in question, yet heterogeneity in the pathways through which ratification affects various human rights outcomes has received limited attention. This paper first develops an account of treaty compliance that...

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Main Author:	Gauri, Varun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 International Law K330 Nonprofit Institutions NGOs L310 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170
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spelling	okr-10986-57652021-04-23T14:02:23Z The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization Gauri, Varun Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 International Law K330 Nonprofit Institutions NGOs L310 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 The determinants of compliance with human rights treaties likely vary according to the right in question, yet heterogeneity in the pathways through which ratification affects various human rights outcomes has received limited attention. This paper first develops an account of treaty compliance that incorporates the intrinsic benefits to the state of compliance, regime costs associated with certain rights, the political costs that NGOs, judges, and others are able to impose for non-compliance, and the fiscal and economic costs of compliance. The paper argues that for child survival rights, fiscal and economic costs are likely to be dispositive, and that as a result richer countries are more likely to comply. The paper then uses an instrumental variable approach to investigate whether ratification of the Convention of the Rights of the Child was associated with stronger effort at the country level on child survival rights. It finds that ratification of the CRC was correlated with a subsequent increase in immunization rates, but only in upper middle and high income countries. 2012-03-30T07:34:26Z 2012-03-30T07:34:26Z 2011 Journal Article Review of International Organizations 15597431 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5765 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description	The determinants of compliance with human rights treaties likely vary according to the right in question, yet heterogeneity in the pathways through which ratification affects various human rights outcomes has received limited attention. This paper first develops an account of treaty compliance that incorporates the intrinsic benefits to the state of compliance, regime costs associated with certain rights, the political costs that NGOs, judges, and others are able to impose for non-compliance, and the fiscal and economic costs of compliance. The paper argues that for child survival rights, fiscal and economic costs are likely to be dispositive, and that as a result richer countries are more likely to comply. The paper then uses an instrumental variable approach to investigate whether ratification of the Convention of the Rights of the Child was associated with stronger effort at the country level on child survival rights. It finds that ratification of the CRC was correlated with a subsequent increase in immunization rates, but only in upper middle and high income countries.
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author	Gauri, Varun
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title	The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization
title_short	The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization
title_full	The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization
title_fullStr	The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization
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The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization

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