Emigration and democracy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Docquier, Frederic; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, Hillel; Schiff, Maurice
• 署名单位: Universite Catholique Louvain; Universite Catholique Louvain; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; Paris School of Economics; heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; Bar Ilan University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.12.001
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 209-223
• 关键词: MIGRATION; institutions; DEMOCRACY; Development

摘要

International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration 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. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.