Recent research shows that the majority of cross-national variation in institutions is related to history. The within … countries respectively, we find that the within variation in economic institutions (namely property rights and contracts) can be … explained by trade liberalization. To address endogeneity concern we use export partner growth and rainfall as instruments for …

relatively stable democracy to autocracy and 6 episodes of small improvements in representative institutions. We also classify … prerequisites for democracy in these countries that enter the Third Wave as non-democracies. Examining initially autocratic … democratic) and reverse causality (democracy can be both a cause and a consequence of wealth, for example). Our estimates reveal …

conditions under which weak property rights institutions emerge, providing a specific mechanism for the endogenous persistence of … inefficient rural institutions as development unfolds. It also predicts a non-monotonic relationship between the quality of rural …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autoc- racies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

institutional reforms have differential growth effects in monarchies and republics. A set of Barrotype regressions show that there … are no significant growth differences between the two regime types and that the effects of incremental reforms do not …