Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

'No Poverty' and 'Reduced Inequalities' are two out of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations …. Nowadays, Kenya faces high levels of poverty and inequality: 36 percent of the population live below the poverty line and the … reduce poverty and promote income equality in Kenya. Using econometric models we show the effect of consumption taxes on …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …

the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on …, we find that direct democracy is particularly associated with lower welfare spending. Moreover, we estimate a model which … a given initial income distribution. -- Income Redistribution ; Direct Democracy ; Referendums ; Initiatives …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …

The literature documents a positive association between democracy and health, and studies supporting this claim have … response, this study revisits the relationship between democracy and health using micro-level household data from 816 randomly …

the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on … representative democracies. In this paper, we find that institutions of direct democracy are associated with lower public spending …

the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on … representative democracies. In this paper, we find that institutions of direct democracy are associated with lower public spending …