Docquier, Frédéric
[Verfasser:in]
;
Lodigiani, Elisabetta
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Rapoport, Hillel
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Schiff, Maurice
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series ; No. 31/WP/2015
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (41 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2675106
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Beschreibung:
International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-section and panel analysis for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification methods. Remarkably, the cross-sectional estimates are fully in line with the implied long-run relationship from dynamic panel regressions