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...d the log of per capita GDP in the initial year (initialGDP ), measured for each time period. The schooling data comes from Barro and Lee (2000) while the rest derive from the Penn World Tables (PWT)(=-=Heston, Summers, & Aten, 2009-=-). The set of variables, xi; includes the set of political and economic institution variables that are of central interest in this paper, as well as other controls. Our political institution variables...

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... central interest in this paper, as well as other controls. Our political institution variables come from the Polity IV data set, which is collected on a yearly basis for most countries of the world (=-=Marshall & Jaggers, 2008-=-).2 We consider seven measures of political institutions that, collectively, aim to capture the constraints on the executive powers of political elites as well as howsrm a hold they have on power: (1)...