remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …

most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …

and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …

Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even …,500 respondents to examine the impact of the pandemic on public attitudes about incumbent governments, the functioning of democracy …

government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

measure this democracy effect. We derive the distribution of the statistic of the democracy effect, and apply the new strategy … under democracy by weighting the behavior of each type of voter by its prevalence in the whole population (and not …. Application of this method to the data in Dal Bó, Foster and Putterman (2010) confirms the presence of the democracy effect in …