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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya: by Kremer, Michael; Glewwe, Paul; Moulin, Sylvie; A randomized evaluation suggests that a program which provided official textbooks to randomly selected rural Kenyan primary schools did not increase test scores for the average student. In contrast,...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2007 More

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption: by Pande, Rohini; Banerjee, Abhijit; This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2007 More

Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State Governments: by Alt, James; Dreyer Lassen, David; The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective separation of powers is achieved under divided government, with the executive and...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: June 15, 2007 More

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia: by Robinson, James A.; Acemoglu, Daron; Bautista, María Angélica; Querubín, Pablo; Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: June 2007 More

Democracy, Technology, and Growth: by Aghion, Philippe; Alesina, Alberto; Trebbi, Francesco; We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: May 2007 More

Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities: by Desai, Mihir A.; Dharmapala, Dhammika; Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). By combining data on US outbound FPI and FDI, this...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: May 2007 More

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?: by Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew; In this paper we distinguish different “qualities” of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use ‘quality’ to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth....; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: May 2007 More

Toward a Common Framework for Statistical Analysis and Development: by King, Gary; Imai, Kosuke; Lau, Olivia; We describe some progress toward a common framework for statistical analysis and software development built on and within the R language, including R’s numerous existing packages. The framework we...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: April 4, 2007 More

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India: by Cole, Shawn; How vulnerable are economic interventions to political capture, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: April 2, 2007 More

The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras: by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Hatton, Timothy J.; This paper asks whether history can inform modern debate about immigration’s impact on high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration’s labor market impact and capital flows...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: April 2007 More

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