, or violence. We provide a model to discuss the implications for the emergence of poverty traps. …

because of an adequate social environment with little inequality, that may be associated with economic well-being. …

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth … incidence of conflict itself significantly reduces growth. The results show in turn that permanent democratic transitions … significantly reduce the incidence and onset of conflict, which suggests that part of the positive growth effect of democratization …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … transition. Moreover, a sufficiently high life expectancy is ultimately the trigger of the transition to sustained income growth …

because of an adequate social environment with little inequality, that may be associated with economic well …-being. -- democracy ; development ; Lipset hypothesis ; causal effect ; growth ; political institutions …