approach, linking global political interdependence to distinct development paths in Africa, relies on history to extract a …

control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on … income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact … mix up the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of access to trade and of …

institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor … regulations do not have a bearing on economic growth, but enforceable labor regulations do. In fact, when using a GMM-IV method …-run economic growth. …

Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic … colonization affect income today once colonization's impact on the composition of the population and the quality of institutions is …

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve … institutional instability. We investigate the growth effects of institutional quality and instability, using the political risk … the aggregate index, we find evidence that institutional quality is positively linked to growth. While institutional …

We use the Economic Freedom Index (Gwartney, Lawson and Norton 2008) to characterise the institutions of ancient Athens … determinant of economic growth, this may be one factor in the relative material success of the Athenians. …

preferences (altruistic or exclusionist), which in turn determines the type of allocative institutions and policies that prevail … building peace, it must engineer institutions that uproot the legacy of discrimination and promote equal opportunity for social …