Do foreign-educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home countries? Despite the large amount of … foster democracy in their home countries. Using a unique panel dataset on foreign students starting from 1950, I show that …, indeed, foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired …

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is limited to few reforms, countries, and … years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the …. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic reforms but there is no evidence that economic …

of democracy, is a significant predictor of government spending on education and health. The relationship is robust to … for democracy for a country is associated with approximately 1 percent more central government spending and 3 percent more …

remarkably low and stable. Was this related to a global disinflation environment triggered by China's integration into world …

-related finance declined sharply. However, trade may also be affected by other variables such as world demand, domestic demand …

We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

factor in a healthy liberal democracy. We ask two questions: 1) do individuals who are members of civil associations vote …

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to … conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears … technology of extraction operates only at the early stage of democracy. Its impact tends to phase out as democracy matures. In …