Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …

democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth …, we find evidence that peaceful transitions to democracy have a significant positive effect on growth that is even larger … than reported in the previous literature, while violent transitions to democracy have no, or even negative, effects on …

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions …