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We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al … democracy. The zero-one-inflated beta distribution is more appropriate for continuous but bounded responses with non … democracy variables. Since our analysis highlights that the distribution of democracy is bimodal, we approximate the modes using …
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terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
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This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
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migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … Arbeitslosenrate (Kapitel 5) sowie der Dynamik von Demokratie und Einkommen (Kapitel 6). …
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We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
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This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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