Time to bust out the good ol’ boy

In 30 of 36 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes.

PQL variables included indicators of health, health services, demographic conditions, and nutrition (infant mortality rate, child death rate, life expectancy, crude death rate, crude birth rate, population per physician, population per nursing person, and daily per capita calorie supply); measures of education (adult literacy rate, enrollment in secondary education, and enrollment in higher education); and a composite PQL index.