indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …Do foreign educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home country? Despite the large amount of … private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals …

education. Public education is favourable for growth because it increases the level of human capital and at the same time it … more political support for education; increased political rights are good for growth and also imply a more equal income …

democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 … little evidence of causality running the other way, from democracy to income or education. …Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this …

there exists a distribution of resources such that democracy emerges in equilibrium, but there are distributions of … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers … results on the stability of democracy with regard to changes in the economic and demographic environment. The results are …

between democracy and institutional quality. …

Regimes controlled by a rich elite often collapse and make way for democracy amidst widespread social unrest. Such … therefore be forced to choose between repression and the most generous concession, a transition to full democracy. …

causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not … country fixed effects removes the statistical association between income per capita and various measures of democracy. We also … on democracy. Furthermore, we reconcile the positive cross-country correlation between income and democracy with the …

level. The evidence supports "development" theories of democracy and growth that highlight the positive impact of … representative institutions on economic activity. They also favour Friedrich Hayek (1960)’s idea that the merits of democracy appear …

magnitude of episodes of mass killing and the levels of development and democracy across countries and over time. Mass killings … appear to be more likely at intermediate levels of income and less likely at very high levels of democracy. However, the … estimated relationship between democracy and probability of mass killings is not linear in the full sample. In the 20th century …