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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten - 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 -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...

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The Growth Effect of Democracy : Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?

Persson, Torsten - 2007

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in differences with matching, that have not been used in macroeconomic settings. Our semi-parametric estimates suggest that previous parametric estimates may have seriously...

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Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence

Persson, Torsten - 1991

Is inequality harmful for growth? We suggest that it is. To summarize our main argument: in a society where distributional conflict is more important, political decisions are more likely to produce economic policies that allow private individuals to appropriate less of the returns to growth...

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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged

Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023

Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on …, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …

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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe

Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing...

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Human-Capital Externalities in China

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

This paper provides evidences of heterogeneous human-capital externality using CHIP 2002, 2007 and 2013 data from urban China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the 1950s, one year more city-level education increases...

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The Rise of the Skilled City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are...

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Education and Religion

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2001

In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to social connection and reduces the extent of religious...

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Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Naik, Nikhil - 2015

Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between the physical and social components of urban change is not well understood due to the lack of comprehensive measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Health : Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?

Bor, Jacob H.; Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....

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