This paper argues for the importance of individuals’ tolerance of inequality for <p> economic growth. By using the political ideology of governments as a measure of <p> revealed tolerance of inequality, the paper shows that controlling for ideology improves <p> the accuracy with which the effects of...</p></p></p>

Standard theoretical arguments suggest that republics ought to grow faster than monarchies and experience lower transitional costs following reforms. We employ a panel of 27 countries observed from 18202000 to explore whether regime types and institutional reforms have differential growth...

This paper connects two strands of the literature on social trust by estimating the effects of trust on growth through a set of potential transmission mechanisms directly. It does so by modelling the process using a three-stage least squares estimator on a sample of countries for which a full...