We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the modernisation hypothesis holds in South America, or … Instrumental Variables estimators), suggest that the modernisation hypothesis holds in the region during the period 1970-2007, or … the modernisation hypothesis does survive scrutiny for the period 1945-1969 as well, a period in which the continent was …

We investigate in this paper whether the modernisation hypothesis holds in Latin America, and our sample includes nine … Variables, DIF-GMM and SYS-GMM estimators), suggest that the modernisation hypothesis holds in the region, or that income, or …

ordered logistic regression. The results show some evidence in support of the modernisation hypothesis in the context of …