This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with … institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. …

distributed unequally and institutions do not ensure political commitments. The results imply that for any level of development … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers …

dictatorship, in societies in which productive resources are distributed unequally and institutions do not ensure political … commitments. The political regime is shown to depend on resource inequality as well as on economic development, reflected in the … production structure. The main results imply that for any level of development there exists a distribution of resources such that …

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …