Publications
WCFIA Publications
- French Lottery Bonds Show Risky History of Property Bets
- by Yates, Alexia
- Publisher: Bloomberg
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- The man who knocks on the door is polished and friendly. His suit is fashionable, his briefcase looks important. And the things he pulls out of it are impressive: large sheets of bonds and coupons...
- Published Date: September 2012 More
- The New Institutionalism and Africa
- by Bates, Robert H.
- After briefly reviewing the new institutionalism, this article uses the history of political reform in Africa to test its key tenet: that power, if properly organized, is a productive resource. It...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: September 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
- The State of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
- by Bates, Robert H.
- Africa experienced a wave of democratization over the past 20 years and this increase in democracy, we find, positively and significantly affects income per capita. Our dynamic panel data results...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: September 2012 More
- Education and Military Rivalry
- by Aghion, Philippe
- Using data from the last 150 years in a small set of countries, and from the postwar period in a large set of countries, we show that large investments in state primary education systems tend to...
- Publication Type: Working Papers
- Published Date: April 2012 More
- Toward Better Aid
- by Leaning, Jennifer
- Publisher: The Harvard Gazette
- Publication Type: Interview
- Better training, closer coordination among relief agencies, and a bigger dose of humility while working in unfamiliar cultures would help humanitarian aid workers, and make more of the billions of...
- Published Date: August 2012 More
- Why Obama is Winning
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- It’s a paradox. The economy is in the doldrums. Yet the incumbent is ahead in the polls. According to a huge body of research by political scientists, this is not supposed to happen. On the other...
- Published Date: September 2012 More