expenditures with terms of trade in oil exporting countries, and (ii) improve non-resource primary balances in all RRC, especially …-of-trade can be achieved with expenditure rules, and, for oil-exporters, revenue rules (althoug limited data on the latter calls … to have a positive impact, especially in oil exporting countries. We further investigate the effect of fiscal rules and …

Post-World War II, much of international law and comparative law has been directed to the question of securing human …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …