We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …

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. …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, "humanly devised" political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … (from a Gini of 0.525 to 0.521) but the portion that cannot be explained by political institutions has increased …

as growth models have been different. The major objective of this paper is to compare the policies, institutions …, policies and institutions since last three decades. …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …