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 …

democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …

partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …