Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2014
measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and estimation methods … literature. Using cross-section and panel analysis for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to … emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as …