Does democracy matter for normatively desirable outcomes? We survey results from 1,100
cross-country analyses drawn from 600 journal articles published after the year 2000. These …

Drawing on recent work and data on social protection in the developing world, this essay
evaluates the current state of the art and suggests several important new lines of research …

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to
social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders-rural …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality.
We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution …

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the
settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the …

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy.
Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate …

A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents
all the major growth paradigms and shows how they can be used to analyze the growth …

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether,
alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We …