HUMAN RIGHTS AND DUTCH FOREIGN AID Erin Sielaff Kristen Skillman INAF 339

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

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)

Hypothesis H 1 : The Netherlands gives more foreign aid to countries with better human rights records.

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

The Effect of Empowerment Rights on Dutch Foreign Aid (1)(2)(3) new_empinx (0.011) 0.069*** (0.020) 0.066*** (0.023) democracy 0.160** (0.078) (0.220) (0.221) gdppc_us *** (0.000) (0.000) 0.000** (0.000) population 0.000*** (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) colnld 0.354*** (0.084) imports (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) dutch exports (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) pcommunist *** (0.087) (0.509) (0.549) oil *** (0.099) Year FE No Yes Country FE NoYes No. of Observations 2001 Adj. R-squared

The Effect of Physical Integrity Rights on Dutch Foreign Aid (1)(2)(3) physint *** (0.016) (0.020) (0.020) democracy 0.237*** (0.062) (0.237) (0.242) gdppc_us *** (0.000) *** (0.000) *** (0.000) population 0.000*** (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) colnld 0.313*** (0.082) imports (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) dutch exports (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) pcommunist *** (0.087) (0.582) (0.621) oil *** (0.095) Year FE No Yes Country FE NoYes No. of Observations 2002 Adj. R-squared

Conclusion Human rights matter in Dutch aid allocation…...But only empowerment rights

Moving Forward  Collinearity Problem  Other controls?  Breaking down human rights variables