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This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …
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This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per … growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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general democracy index for 87 countries shows that a higher degree of direct democracy leads to lower budget deficits and …
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This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 … countries using an index of direct democracy. The test is interesting since there are important variations across these … the estimation technique. Political rights and stability also work as prerequisites to direct democracy. Direct democracy …
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difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …
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We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
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In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We … examine this prediction using a new measure of economic uncertainty, the World Uncertainty Index and focus on data from 126 …
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more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …
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This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … is a certain degree of press freedom in a country, vice versa. Our policy implication is that democratic reforms are more …
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