Mastering Panel Metrics: Causal Impact of Democracy on Growth

The relationship between democracy and economic growth is of long standing interest. We revisit the panel data analysis of this relationship by Acemoglu et al. (2019) using state of the art econometric methods. We argue that this and lots of other panel data settings in economics are in fact high-di...

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Main Authors: Chen, Shuowen, Chernozhukov, Victor V, Fernández-Val, Iván
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122943