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Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth: by Bates, Robert H.; Block, Steven; Africa is largely agrarian and the performance of agriculture shapes the performance of its economies. It has long been argued that economic development in Africa is strongly conditioned by politics....; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2012 More

Conclusion: The Choices of Voters during the 2006 Presidential Election in Mexico: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; In 2006, Felipe Calderón narrowly defeated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico’s hotly contested presidential election. Mexico’s 2006 presidential race demonstrated the importance of...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: August 2012 More

Income and Democracy: Lipset’s Law Inverted: by Bates, Robert H.; We revisit Lipset’s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2012 More

Senegal: What Will Turnover Bring?: by Kelly, Catherine; On 25 March 2012, Macky Sall of the Alliance for the Republic (APR) won the second round of Senegal’s presidential election with 65.8 percent of the vote, handily defeating incumbent president...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of US Health Care Spending: by Chandra, Amitabh; Baicker, Katherine; Skinner, Jonathan S.; There is growing concern over the rising share of the US economy devoted to health care spending. Fueled in part by demographic transitions, unchecked increases in entitlement spending will...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Saravelos, George; We investigate whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the recent...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

The Health Care Jobs Fallacy: by Chandra, Amitabh; Baicker, Katherine; The United States is in the throes of the most serious recession in post-war history. Despite improving employment numbers, the official unemployment rate still exceeded 8% in March 2012. Amidst this...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe: by Hornbeck, Richard; The 1930s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. The Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

Muslim Integration into Western Cultures: Between Origins and Destinations: by Norris, Pippa; Inglehart, Ronald; To what extent do migrants carry their culture with them, and to what extent do they acquire the culture of their new home? The answer not only has important political implications; it also helps us...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

Genealogies of STS: by Jasanoff, Sheila; Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating some pages of the past while consigning others to forgetfulness. Official memories reinforce dominant cultural...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More