The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …

-existing institutions. These results are consistent with a theoretical model in which armed groups capture local organizations for strategic …

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …

alternative estimation approaches and alternative ways of measuring ethnic diversity. Our results also show that trust, which is … probability of engaging in informal work. Our results point to the need for policies that promote trust between diverse ethnic …

How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … trust, reconciliation, and community engagement than stayees, whereas the differences between international returnees and … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …