Fuchs, Andreas; Richert, Katharina - 2015 - This version: November 2015
’ personal characteristics influence aid budgets and aid quality. To this end, we create a novel database on development … time in office over the 1967-2012 period. Results from fixed-effects panel regressions show that some of the personal … characteristics of development ministers matter. Most notably, we find that more experienced ministers with respect to their time in …