necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …

-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not … the access to water, education, health and paved roads, while positively associated with access to sewage system and …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy …

This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing … of Islamic law discouraged the formation of a strong merchant class and subsequently impeded the development of forms of …

for an extensive set of geographical and historical factors of development and minority settlement patterns. Matching type … provide evidence on the channels of persistence. Armenian and Greek contribution to long-run development is largely mediated … development appears less important. …