equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …

democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of economic growth, we use variation in precipitation, temperatures, and … reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …

public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is … Republic. We also find that post-secondary education acquired under communism yields higher, not lower, payoffs than similar …

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …

described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …

Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives …

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that 'communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance …