Emigration and democracy
Article dans une revue: International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification methods. Remarkably, the cross-sectional estimates are fully in line with the implied long-run relationship from dynamic panel regressions.
Auteur(s)
Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport, Maurice Schiff
Revue
- Journal of Development Economics
Date de publication
- 2016
Mots-clés
- Migration
- Institutions
- Democracy
- Development
Pages
- 209-223
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 120