between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is … predicated via three sub-chains (i) from marketization to growth, (ii) from growth to overall material development welfare and …

effects. They are also supported by evidence from recent country cases. Though the reemergence of multiparty democracy in …

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …