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

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

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

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

democracy than South Korean subjects. Attitudes toward institutions are more strongly associated with the experimental behaviors … to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …