Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from … impact on economic growth. This paper narrows down the question to empirically estimating the causal effect of local … elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of …

variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …

effects of its own investment, while treating other countries' investments as given. Average world growth is endogenous, as is …

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth …. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process …. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output requires the continuous creation of new technological and commercial …

, as well as studies of inequality and economic growth. The main conclusion is that there is little, if any, Swedish … of the welfare state. The recent favorable growth record of Sweden, including the period of financial stress (2008 …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …