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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by …

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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

a major role in the determination of this historical event, but that the quality of institutions also mattered. We … evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more … find that both sets of institutions contributed to this event, even after controlling for their potential endogeneity …

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Ideology

Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …

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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects are understandably rare. This paper provides a theoretical framework that focus on the...

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....

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Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Iyigun, Murat F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …

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