Investigators: CDEP Affiliate Suresh Naidu with Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, and Pascual Restrepo
In this project, the investigators look at the impact of democracy on inequality and economic growth in a panel of countries. Using an improved measure of democracy and accounting for the dynamics of GDP, they find that a country experiencing a democratic transition has a 20% increase in GDP over the next 25 years. However, in a parallel paper, they find that democracy has no average impact on inequality, despite rich patterns.
Published as Chapter 21 - Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality in Handbook of Income Distribution, Vol 2, 2015, pages 1885-1966.
