distribution. We address this issue by applying quantile regression methods. We examine whether greater democracy and more … democracy on CO2 emissions is heterogeneous across quantiles. Among the most emissions nations, greater democracy appears to …

Summary Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems from the … increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic growth. A great deal of the research focuses on how … political institutions influence perceptions of corruption. We move this debate in a new direction by addressing a previously …

analysis finds a positive and robust effect of democracy on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, a continent historically … capacity on growth, both in Africa and globally; the effect of democracy on growth increases when state capacity is reduced … characterized by weak-capacity states. Furthermore, the paper identifies a robust interaction effect between democracy and state …

While extant research has focused on the causes and consequences of corruption at the macro-level, less effort has been … devoted to understanding the micro-foundation of corruption. We argue that poor people are more likely to be victims of …

Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia are likely to hold large numbers of very poor rural people into the …