This paper explores how support for radical right populist parties may be shaped by new measures of deprivation and inequality based on growth-incidence-curves, gauging growth in real household income across a country’s income deciles and calculating a given decile's gains relative to the...

This paper explores how support for radical right populist parties may be shaped by new measures of deprivation and inequality based on growth-incidence-curves, gauging growth in real household income across a country's income deciles and calculating a given decile's gains relative to the gains...

The conflict trap literature suggests that ethnic violence tends to be self-perpetuating. Testing this hypothesis is challenging, however, as both past and current violence could be determined by the same underlying factors. To overcome this endogeneity problem we exploit that in India the date...

Research on the economic roots of democracy tends to focus on income, inequality, education, and/or urbanization. I hypothesize that industrialization — defined as a large share of employment in manufacturing — is more important for democracy. Using novel manufacturing employment data for...