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 …

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 …

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 …

. The principal finding is that democratization in countries, as measured by within-country variation in subjective indices … 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 …