Why Not Adopt Better Institutions?
- 31 May 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Oxford Development Studies
- Vol. 40 (2) , 272-281
Abstract
How much growth do (economic and legal) institutions cause? To quantify this effect, we adapted the baseline regression in Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's (2002, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), pp. 1231–1294) seminal work on the causal relationship between the quality of institutions and differences in modern-day income levels was adapted. We found that improving institutional quality by one standard deviation increased a country's average annual growth rate by only 0.4% from 1820 to 1995.Keywords
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