Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2016
(as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification … literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to … emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development …