Steven A Mejia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3600495 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven A Mejia |
| NOMBRES | Steven A |
| APELLIDO | Mejia |
| FIRMA | MEJIA S A |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8929-5404 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Economic Development and the Environment
Objective This analysis provides new cross‐national evidence to bear on longstanding theoretical tensions between treadmill of production theory and ecological modernization theory/environmental Kuznets curve over the economic development–environment relationship. Methods I adjudicate between these competing theories using fixed effects panel regression models. Results Statistical analyses support ecological modernization theory and the environme…
The domestic and global determinants of hunger
Global hunger is one of the most pressing issues facing us today. What explains cross-national and longitudinal variations in hunger? Current explanations of development and health outcomes more generally emphasize intranational or world economic processes. This analysis provides an alternative view, emphasizing the role of liberal and illiberal world culture in explaining cross-national and longitudinal variations in hunger. To test the proposed…
International Trade and the Environment
Objective I develop and propose a theory of ecologically beneficial exchange, which argues that exports from less‐developed countries (LDCs) to high‐income countries (HICs) reduce carbon emissions in the former. Methods I test the theory using two‐way fixed estimation of expansive cross‐national, longitudinal data on over 100 developing countries from 1990 to 2020. Results Results provide empirical support for the proposed theory of ecologically …
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990-2018
Social scientists have long queried the socio-structural determinants of fertility rates. Drawing on the insights of dependency theory, this research investigates the impact of trade openness, exports to high-income countries, foreign direct investment, and debt dependence on fertility rates in developing countries. Results from generalized least squares (GLS) random effects (RE) panel regression models suggest that trade openness has a null effe…
The effects of world society on international poverty, 1990-2018
The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018
Objective This research investigates the impact of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation across a sample of developed and developing countries, and at the global level. Methods I estimate fixed effects panel regression models with robust standard errors clustered by country. Results I consistently find that liberal world society embeddedness helps explain cross‐national and longitudinal variations in women's le…
Globalization, foreign direct investment, and child mortality
Social scientists have long debated the impacts of foreign investment for developing countries. However, the relationship between foreign investment and child mortality is still heavily contested among comparative international social scientists despite decades of research. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear on this contested debate, where the competing arguments of neoclassical economic theory and foreign investment dependency theory ar…
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990-2019
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Climate Change
There has been a dramatic increase in the long-term accumulation of foreign direct investment ( FDI ) in less-developed countries from 1980–2018. Scholars argue that these processes have harmful effects on climate change-inducing emissions. Here, the author argues that such expansions have beneficial impacts. He empirically evaluates such theorization using fixed effects ( FE ) panel regression models. Results provide support for his view. These …
Global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment
Objective This research draws on the theory of unequal exchange to help explain global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU). Methods I evaluate the proposition that the vertical flow of exports to high‐income countries exerts harmful effects on undernourishment in less‐developed countries using fixed effects estimation and generalized least squares random effects tobit panel regression models. Results Insights from the theory of…
The economic growth effects of foreign direct investment in developing countries, 1980–2019
The foreign investment and economic growth relationship in developing countries have attracted considerable attention in comparative international sociology. However, despite nearly fifty years of research, this relationship is still not well understood. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear upon this issue with analyses that improve upon previous research on the foreign direct investment and economic growth nexus in developing countries. I…
Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates
Measles has long plagued human societies. Measles vaccines are highly effective in preventing this disease, but there are striking inequities in vaccination rates between developed and less-developed countries. Scholars have long argued that foreign investment dependence explains global inequities in development outcomes more broadly. The author argues that debt dependence is what matters for such empirical observations. He evaluates his argument…
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
Social scientists have long debated the environmental impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI). This research empirically evaluates the competing theoretical expectations of neoclassical economic theory and FDI dependency theory regarding the FDI and carbon dioxide emissions per capita relationship. Results from fixed effects panel regression models indicate that inward FDI stocks in all economic sectors exert a beneficial effect on carbon diox…
The harmful effects of primary sector foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries, 2000–2018
Objective This research investigates whether primary sector foreign direct investment affects carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries. Methods I estimate generalized least squares random effects panel regression models. Results GLS RE panel regression models indicate that primary sector foreign investment dependence is positively associated with total carbon dioxide emissions, which supports the tenets of foreign investment dependency th…
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries
Scholars have long investigated the factors that affect health outcomes in less-developed countries. One debate that has increasingly intensified in recent years is the democracy and health relationship in comparative international context. Scholars argue that democracy does affect country-level health outcomes in less-developed countries, while others argue democracy does not affect country-level health outcomes. I estimate the effect of numerou…
Does foreign capital dependence affect carbon dioxide emissions in less‐developed countries? A cross‐national analysis, 1980–2014
Objective I estimate the effect of foreign investment dependence on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries with methods and data that address the numerous limitations of previous research on the same topic. Methods I use fixed effects panel regression models that account for first‐order autocorrelation with a sample of 109 developing countries from 1980–2014. Results I find that foreign capital dependence is positively associated with c…
Foreign Direct Investment Dependence and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas
Scholars have long inquired the anthropogenic causes of greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of empirical work focuses on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, but limited attention is paid to nitrous oxide emissions. This is a crucial omission as nitrous oxide emissions are an extremely potent greenhouse gas and trigger ozone-depleting reactions upon reaching the atmosphere. Using a fixed effects panel regression of 106 developing countries, I…
The Climate Crisis and Export Intensity
The climate crisis is among the gravest threats to humanity and the planet. Combatting the climate crisis requires understanding of the sociostructural causes of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Social scientists have long debated the environmental implications of trade openness for developing countries, with world-systems analysis/dependency theory suggesting that trade openness is associated with increased environmental degradation. Conv…
Global Environmentalism and the World-System
Ambient air pollution represents a global health crisis, leading to 7 million annual deaths worldwide. The rise of a 'global environmental regime' manifests in the widespread adoption of environmental policies and laws to reduce ambient air pollution, but debate remains whether they have any effect. Scholars argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution depends on the penetration of the global environmental…
The Climate Crisis and Export Intensity
The climate crisis is among the gravest threats to humanity and the planet. Combatting the climate crisis requires understanding of the sociostructural causes of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Social scientists have long debated the environmental implications of trade openness for developing countries, with world-systems analysis/dependency theory suggesting that trade openness is associated with increased environmental degradation. Conv…
Global Environmentalism and the World-System
Ambient air pollution represents a global health crisis, leading to 7 million annual deaths worldwide. The rise of a 'global environmental regime' manifests in the widespread adoption of environmental policies and laws to reduce ambient air pollution, but debate remains whether they have any effect. Scholars argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution depends on the penetration of the global environmental…
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries
Scholars have long investigated the factors that affect health outcomes in less-developed countries. One debate that has increasingly intensified in recent years is the democracy and health relationship in comparative international context. Scholars argue that democracy does affect country-level health outcomes in less-developed countries, while others argue democracy does not affect country-level health outcomes. I estimate the effect of numerou…
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
Social scientists have long debated the environmental impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI). This research empirically evaluates the competing theoretical expectations of neoclassical economic theory and FDI dependency theory regarding the FDI and carbon dioxide emissions per capita relationship. Results from fixed effects panel regression models indicate that inward FDI stocks in all economic sectors exert a beneficial effect on carbon diox…
Does foreign capital dependence affect carbon dioxide emissions in less‐developed countries? A cross‐national analysis, 1980–2014
Objective I estimate the effect of foreign investment dependence on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries with methods and data that address the numerous limitations of previous research on the same topic. Methods I use fixed effects panel regression models that account for first‐order autocorrelation with a sample of 109 developing countries from 1980–2014. Results I find that foreign capital dependence is positively associated with c…
Foreign Direct Investment Dependence and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas
Scholars have long inquired the anthropogenic causes of greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of empirical work focuses on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, but limited attention is paid to nitrous oxide emissions. This is a crucial omission as nitrous oxide emissions are an extremely potent greenhouse gas and trigger ozone-depleting reactions upon reaching the atmosphere. Using a fixed effects panel regression of 106 developing countries, I…
Globalization, foreign direct investment, and child mortality
Social scientists have long debated the impacts of foreign investment for developing countries. However, the relationship between foreign investment and child mortality is still heavily contested among comparative international social scientists despite decades of research. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear on this contested debate, where the competing arguments of neoclassical economic theory and foreign investment dependency theory ar…
Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates
Measles has long plagued human societies. Measles vaccines are highly effective in preventing this disease, but there are striking inequities in vaccination rates between developed and less-developed countries. Scholars have long argued that foreign investment dependence explains global inequities in development outcomes more broadly. The author argues that debt dependence is what matters for such empirical observations. He evaluates his argument…
The harmful effects of primary sector foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries, 2000–2018
Objective This research investigates whether primary sector foreign direct investment affects carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries. Methods I estimate generalized least squares random effects panel regression models. Results GLS RE panel regression models indicate that primary sector foreign investment dependence is positively associated with total carbon dioxide emissions, which supports the tenets of foreign investment dependency th…
Global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment
Objective This research draws on the theory of unequal exchange to help explain global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU). Methods I evaluate the proposition that the vertical flow of exports to high‐income countries exerts harmful effects on undernourishment in less‐developed countries using fixed effects estimation and generalized least squares random effects tobit panel regression models. Results Insights from the theory of…
The economic growth effects of foreign direct investment in developing countries, 1980–2019
The foreign investment and economic growth relationship in developing countries have attracted considerable attention in comparative international sociology. However, despite nearly fifty years of research, this relationship is still not well understood. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear upon this issue with analyses that improve upon previous research on the foreign direct investment and economic growth nexus in developing countries. I…
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990-2018
Social scientists have long queried the socio-structural determinants of fertility rates. Drawing on the insights of dependency theory, this research investigates the impact of trade openness, exports to high-income countries, foreign direct investment, and debt dependence on fertility rates in developing countries. Results from generalized least squares (GLS) random effects (RE) panel regression models suggest that trade openness has a null effe…
The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018
Objective This research investigates the impact of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation across a sample of developed and developing countries, and at the global level. Methods I estimate fixed effects panel regression models with robust standard errors clustered by country. Results I consistently find that liberal world society embeddedness helps explain cross‐national and longitudinal variations in women's le…
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990-2019
The effects of world society on international poverty, 1990-2018
The Climate Crisis and Export Intensity
The climate crisis is among the gravest threats to humanity and the planet. Combatting the climate crisis requires understanding of the sociostructural causes of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Social scientists have long debated the environmental implications of trade openness for developing countries, with world-systems analysis/dependency theory suggesting that trade openness is associated with increased environmental degradation. Conv…
Global Environmentalism and the World-System
Ambient air pollution represents a global health crisis, leading to 7 million annual deaths worldwide. The rise of a 'global environmental regime' manifests in the widespread adoption of environmental policies and laws to reduce ambient air pollution, but debate remains whether they have any effect. Scholars argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution depends on the penetration of the global environmental…
Does foreign capital dependence affect carbon dioxide emissions in less‐developed countries? A cross‐national analysis, 1980–2014
Objective I estimate the effect of foreign investment dependence on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries with methods and data that address the numerous limitations of previous research on the same topic. Methods I use fixed effects panel regression models that account for first‐order autocorrelation with a sample of 109 developing countries from 1980–2014. Results I find that foreign capital dependence is positively associated with c…
Foreign Direct Investment Dependence and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas
Scholars have long inquired the anthropogenic causes of greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of empirical work focuses on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, but limited attention is paid to nitrous oxide emissions. This is a crucial omission as nitrous oxide emissions are an extremely potent greenhouse gas and trigger ozone-depleting reactions upon reaching the atmosphere. Using a fixed effects panel regression of 106 developing countries, I…
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
Social scientists have long debated the environmental impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI). This research empirically evaluates the competing theoretical expectations of neoclassical economic theory and FDI dependency theory regarding the FDI and carbon dioxide emissions per capita relationship. Results from fixed effects panel regression models indicate that inward FDI stocks in all economic sectors exert a beneficial effect on carbon diox…
The harmful effects of primary sector foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries, 2000–2018
Objective This research investigates whether primary sector foreign direct investment affects carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries. Methods I estimate generalized least squares random effects panel regression models. Results GLS RE panel regression models indicate that primary sector foreign investment dependence is positively associated with total carbon dioxide emissions, which supports the tenets of foreign investment dependency th…
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries
Scholars have long investigated the factors that affect health outcomes in less-developed countries. One debate that has increasingly intensified in recent years is the democracy and health relationship in comparative international context. Scholars argue that democracy does affect country-level health outcomes in less-developed countries, while others argue democracy does not affect country-level health outcomes. I estimate the effect of numerou…
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Climate Change
There has been a dramatic increase in the long-term accumulation of foreign direct investment ( FDI ) in less-developed countries from 1980–2018. Scholars argue that these processes have harmful effects on climate change-inducing emissions. Here, the author argues that such expansions have beneficial impacts. He empirically evaluates such theorization using fixed effects ( FE ) panel regression models. Results provide support for his view. These …
Global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment
Objective This research draws on the theory of unequal exchange to help explain global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU). Methods I evaluate the proposition that the vertical flow of exports to high‐income countries exerts harmful effects on undernourishment in less‐developed countries using fixed effects estimation and generalized least squares random effects tobit panel regression models. Results Insights from the theory of…
The economic growth effects of foreign direct investment in developing countries, 1980–2019
The foreign investment and economic growth relationship in developing countries have attracted considerable attention in comparative international sociology. However, despite nearly fifty years of research, this relationship is still not well understood. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear upon this issue with analyses that improve upon previous research on the foreign direct investment and economic growth nexus in developing countries. I…
Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates
Measles has long plagued human societies. Measles vaccines are highly effective in preventing this disease, but there are striking inequities in vaccination rates between developed and less-developed countries. Scholars have long argued that foreign investment dependence explains global inequities in development outcomes more broadly. The author argues that debt dependence is what matters for such empirical observations. He evaluates his argument…
The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018
Objective This research investigates the impact of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation across a sample of developed and developing countries, and at the global level. Methods I estimate fixed effects panel regression models with robust standard errors clustered by country. Results I consistently find that liberal world society embeddedness helps explain cross‐national and longitudinal variations in women's le…
Globalization, foreign direct investment, and child mortality
Social scientists have long debated the impacts of foreign investment for developing countries. However, the relationship between foreign investment and child mortality is still heavily contested among comparative international social scientists despite decades of research. I bring new cross-national evidence to bear on this contested debate, where the competing arguments of neoclassical economic theory and foreign investment dependency theory ar…
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990-2019
International Trade and the Environment
Objective I develop and propose a theory of ecologically beneficial exchange, which argues that exports from less‐developed countries (LDCs) to high‐income countries (HICs) reduce carbon emissions in the former. Methods I test the theory using two‐way fixed estimation of expansive cross‐national, longitudinal data on over 100 developing countries from 1990 to 2020. Results Results provide empirical support for the proposed theory of ecologically …
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990-2018
Social scientists have long queried the socio-structural determinants of fertility rates. Drawing on the insights of dependency theory, this research investigates the impact of trade openness, exports to high-income countries, foreign direct investment, and debt dependence on fertility rates in developing countries. Results from generalized least squares (GLS) random effects (RE) panel regression models suggest that trade openness has a null effe…
The effects of world society on international poverty, 1990-2018
Economic Development and the Environment
Objective This analysis provides new cross‐national evidence to bear on longstanding theoretical tensions between treadmill of production theory and ecological modernization theory/environmental Kuznets curve over the economic development–environment relationship. Methods I adjudicate between these competing theories using fixed effects panel regression models. Results Statistical analyses support ecological modernization theory and the environme…
The domestic and global determinants of hunger
Global hunger is one of the most pressing issues facing us today. What explains cross-national and longitudinal variations in hunger? Current explanations of development and health outcomes more generally emphasize intranational or world economic processes. This analysis provides an alternative view, emphasizing the role of liberal and illiberal world culture in explaining cross-national and longitudinal variations in hunger. To test the proposed…
Economics (17 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Economic growth (12 obras) · Developing country (10 obras) · Development economics (9 obras) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (9 obras) · Macroeconomics (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Econometrics (7 obras) · Foreign direct investment (7 obras)