We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …

: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …

democracies. On the other hand, the results for the Arab World show that economic revolutionizing does not occur there. For this … Wiederwahl einhergeht. Die Untersuchung für Revolutionen und Aufstände in der arabischen Welt dagegen zeigt, dass dort kein …

not sufficient, the military can take action against a nondemocratic regime in order to create its own dictatorship. A … more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …. -- crisis ; infant mortality ; maternal mortality ; low birth weight ; poverty ; Argentina …