1. Human Rights and Dutch Foreign Aid
Erin Sielaff
Kristen Skillman
INAF 339
Erin

2. Research Question
Does the Netherlands distribute more foreign aid to countries with better human rights records?
Yes.
Erin

3. The Debate Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid? Big vs. Small Donors?
Netherlands Foreign Aid?
Key Authors: Alesina and Dollar (2000), Baehr (2010), Hoebink (1999), Neumayer (2003), Stokke (2006)
Kristen

4. Hypothesis
H1: The Netherlands gives more foreign aid to countries with better human rights records.
Erin

5. Data & Methodology Dutch ODA Data CIRI Human Rights Dataset
Controls: Democracy, GDP per capita, Population, Oil, Communism, Trade, Former Colony
Country and Year Fixed Effects
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6. Kristen

7. The Effect of Empowerment Rights on Dutch Foreign Aid
(1)
(2)
(3)
new_empinx
-0.005
(0.011)
0.069***
(0.020)
0.066***
(0.023)
democracy
0.160**
(0.078)
-0.05
(0.220)
-0.026
(0.221)
gdppc_us2000
-0.000***
(0.000)
-0.000
0.000**
population
0.000***
colnld
0.354***
(0.084)
imports
0.000
dutch exports
pcommunist
-0.723***
(0.087)
-0.262
(0.509)
-0.114
(0.549)
oil
-0.811***
(0.099)
Year FE No
Yes
Country FE
No. of Observations
2001
Adj. R-squared
0.24
0.04
0.12
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8. The Effect of Physical Integrity Rights on Dutch Foreign Aid
(1)
(2)
(3)
physint
-0.123***
(0.016)
0.015
(0.020)
0.004
democracy
0.237***
(0.062)
0.024
(0.237)
0.079
(0.242)
gdppc_us2000
-0.000***
(0.000)
population
0.000***
-0.000
colnld
0.313***
(0.082)
imports
0.000
dutch exports
pcommunist
-0.591***
(0.087)
-0.135
(0.582)
(0.621)
oil
-0.870***
(0.095)
Year FE No
Yes
Country FE
No. of Observations
2002
Adj. R-squared
0.26
0.02
0.10
Kristen

9. Conclusion Human rights matter in Dutch aid allocation…
...But only empowerment rights
Kristen
In the coming weeks, we will work towards coming

10. Moving Forward Collinearity Problem Other controls?
Breaking down human rights variables
Erin