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Are we there yet? : time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631449
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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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Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535062
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934092
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Herding, warfare, and a culture of honor: global evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2021
using a combination of ethnographic records, historical folklore information, global data on contemporary conflict events … severe conflict today. Third, the contemporary descendants of herders report being more willing to take revenge and punish … conflict across the globe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624705
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Institutions and development in MENA region : evidence from the manufacturing sector
Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali - 2015
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469679
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Hobbes to Rousseau : inequality, institutions, and development
Cervellati, Matteo (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002543970
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688854
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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking : an empirical analysis
Akee, Randall; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. -- ethnic fragmentation … ; conflict ; displaced persons ; human trafficking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901209
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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations … are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression … the dominant provider of non-routine work. In contrast, assuming that occupations are identical around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239274