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Callen, Michael; Weigel, Jonathan; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023

We review an emerging experimental literature studying institutional change. Institutions are a key determinant of economic growth, but the "critical junctures" in which institutions can change are not precisely defined. For example, such junctures are often identified ex post, raising...

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The economics of nation-building : methodological toolkit and policy lessons

Rohner, Dominic; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2024

This article reviews the recent burgeoning political economics research on nation-building. We focus on three main aspects of this body of work. First, we discuss methodological issues related to measuring nation-building outcomes and provide a synthesis of studies that employ different...

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Why are women less democratic than men? : evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - 2013

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...

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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008

The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-à-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...

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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa

Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021

Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub … a micro level measure of corruption based on the personal experiences of individuals, which realistically represents the … African countries that contains information of more than 50,000 citizens. Corruption is found being negatively correlated with …

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Eat widely, vote wisely : lessons from a campaign against vote buying in Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2024

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...

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Food prices and political instability

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...

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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915

Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916

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