Similar Search Results

Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia

Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016

We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543173

Income, democracy, and critical junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679601

The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213

Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028804

Do leaders' characteristics and regime transitions in Africa matter for citizens' health status?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016

Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that bring about improved...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580812

Electoral democracy at work

Askenazy, Philippe; Breda, Thomas - 2020

We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213011

The political scar of epidemics

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2020

What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237452

The employment effects of ethnic politics

Amodio, Francesco; Chiovelli, Giorgio; Hohmann, Sebastian - 2019

This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ethnic groups, 2,200 electoral constituencies, and 400,000 individuals. We implement a regression...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140265

Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017

We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775929

Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015

We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631