, however, is that there seem to be certain threshold levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs to …

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where … enforcement of property rights depends on the extent of predation activities in the economy. The theory highlights the importance …

for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …

economy and, especially, emerging market and developing economies, have suffered a decade of weak growth despite unprecedented …