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Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower.
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The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...
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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...
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and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …-indigenous families follow decision rules more closely related to collective and bargaining behavior models. -- Bolivia ; culture …
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This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest …
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countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
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country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the … endogeneity problems. -- labor markets ; domestic violence ; Bolivia ; indigenous …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … delivery outcomes. -- Bolivia ; transparency ; accountability ; local-level monitoring ; bureaucratic delay …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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