explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development …

necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

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 …

democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones. …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

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 …

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by … designed to capture the population’s desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …