Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
As shown in the 1930s by Hicks and Robinson the elasticity of substitution (s) is
a key parameter that captures whether capital and labor…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that…
The comparative advantage of a location dictates its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
What can America learn from countries as faraway and diverse as Bhutan, Chile, Denmark, Nigeria and South Korea? Quite a lot, as it turns…
International factors, such as the dramatic increase in imports from emerging-market economies, especially China, have been widely blamed…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…