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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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The transmission of democracy : from the village to the nation-state
Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. -- democracy ; historical persistence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696903
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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
cleavages in society (Hegre et al, 2003; Bhagwati, 2004; Mousseau and Mousseau, 2008; Dreher et al, 2008). -- growth ; democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534885
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607741
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575162
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523480
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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766