Replication data for: Income and Democracy: Comment

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Project Citation:

Cervellati, Matteo, Jung, Florian, Sunde, Uwe, and Vischer, Thomas. Replication data for: Income and Democracy: Comment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112739V1

Project Description

Summary: Acemoglu et al. (2008) document that the correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears when including time and country fixed effects. While their results are robust for the full sample, we find evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy: negative for former colonies, but positive for non-colonies. Within the sample of colonies we detect heterogeneous effects related to colonial history and early institutions. The zero mean effect estimated by Acemoglu et al. (2008) is consistent with effects of opposite signs in the different subsamples. Our findings are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
      O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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