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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends %u2013 in a subtle way %u2013 on the details of...

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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Weingast, Barry R.; North, Douglass C; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed … societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics … must be a fundamental part of the development process. This paper develops an integrated theory of economics and politics …

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Economic and Political Liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection

Goda, Gopi Shah; Manchester, Colleen Flaherty - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We study the effect of incorporating heterogeneity into default rules by examining the choice between retirement plans at a firm which transitioned from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) plan. The default plan for existing employees varied discontinuously depending on their...

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Risk Aversion and the Desirability of Attenuated Legal Change

Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This article develops two points. First, insurance against the risk of legal change is largely unavailable, primarily because of the correlated nature of the losses that legal change generates. Second, given the absence of insurance against legal change, it is generally desirable for legal...

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Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain M.; Henderson, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

We examine the impact of publicly funded biomedical research on the in-house research of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative analysis of the history of the discovery and development of a sample of 21 significant drugs, and a program of interviews with senior managers and...

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Lucky Stores, Gambling, and Addiction: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales

Guryan, Jonathan; Kearney, Melissa S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

There is a large body of literature in both psychology and economics documenting mistaken perceptions of randomness. In …

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Selection and Oversight in the Public Sector, With the Los Angeles Police Department as an Example

Prendergast, Canice - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

I offer theoretical and empirical observations on the oversight of public sector employees. I argue that it is unreasonable to expect that the solutions typically considered in the literature will be effective with public sector employees, because bureaucrats are especially difficult to monitor....

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