This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth …. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the "Third Wave", we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …