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The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quartile Effects of Income and Education

Alexander, Marcus; Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2008

the effects of development as well as changing unobserved country effects in driving democracy at these different stages … of political development. We find income and education have the least effect on democracy when authoritarian regimes are … help and hurt democracy depending again on what the country’s institutional legacies are. Far from accepting the notion …

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High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: A quantile regression approach

Goedhuys, Micheline; Sleuwaegen, Leo - 2009

This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs' attributes and firm characteristics that tend to generate a significant number of...

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Democracy, financial openness, and global carbon dioxide emissions : heterogeneity across existing emission levels

You, Wan-hai; Zhu, Huiming; Yu, Keming; Peng, Cheng - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 189-207

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Economic uncertainty and corruption : evidence from a large cross-country data set

Goel, Rajeev K.; Ram, Rati - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 22/24, pp. 3462-3468

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The impact of corruption on commercial banks' credit risk : evidence from a panel quantile regression

Jenkıns, Hatice; Alshareef, Ezuldeen; Mohamad, Amer - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 28 (2023) 2, pp. 1364-1375

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Accounting for Heterogeneity in Growth Incidence in Cameroon Using Recentered Influence Function Regression

Essama-Nssah, B.; Saumik, Paul; Bassolé, Léandre - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

This paper frames growth incidence analysis within the logic of social impact evaluation understood as an assessment of variations in individual and social outcomes attributable to shocks and policies. It uses recentered influence function (RIF) regression to link the growth incidence curve...

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Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) explicitly demonstrates the differential marginal impact of remittances for households at different...

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