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Understanding low average returns to education in Africa : the role of heterogeneity across education levels and the importance of political and economic reforms

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth (contributor) - 2008

Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low returns to education, a relevant question is what causes low...

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Does it matter how and how much politicians are paid?

Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017

An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...

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Is demonstrating against the far right worth it? : evidence from French presidential elections

Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022

We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never...

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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Deriving the new quantity equation : an approach for a closed and an open economy

Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014

This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...

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Hobbes to Rousseau : inequality, institutions, and development

Cervellati, Matteo (contributor); … - 2005

. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be implemented under oligarchy, and when democratization is … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

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Do migrants improve governance at home? : evidence from a voting experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, we use a simple postcard voting experiment designed to capture the population’s desire for...

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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the "Third Wave", we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the … significantly reduce the incidence and onset of conflict, which suggests that part of the positive growth effect of democratization …

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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...

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The effect of labor migration on the diffusion of democracy : evidence from a former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2014

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...

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