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 …

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

resident workers due to cross-border labor mobility, this result is bad news for EU regions situated on the border with the …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …