Income and democracy: Evidence from nonlinear estimations

Economics Letters

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 489-492

  Benhabib, Jess ^a   Corvalan, Alejandro ^b   Spiegel, Mark M ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Democracy; Dynamic panel; Income; Modernization theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872702319     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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