recipient's level of income or quality of institutions and policies; we find that short-impact aid causes growth, on average … with stronger institutions or longer life expectancies (better health). We also find a significant negative relationship …

A growing body of theoretical and empirical work identifies the ability of a country's institutions to protect private … development. We add to this literature by analyzing the impact of institutions on financial development using data on the … the same formal institutional framework in the U.S., immigrants bring with them varied experiences with institutions in …

countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of … institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic … empirical evidence that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions. …

institutions and the institutional setting. For the polar cases of liberal economies and Scandinavian coordinated market economies …

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …