institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas …

institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of … interaction effect suggests they can be offset by appropriate institutions. …

creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on … economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

This study examines how the quality of political institutions affects the distribution of the government budget in Iran … spending to an improvement (a deterioration) of democratic institutions is negative (positive) and statistically significant … political institutions, different orderings of variables in the VAR and alternative specifications of government spending …

development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become …This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget and how … annual data from 1960 to 2006. Our results show the importance of political institutions in patronage and public goods …