Economic Development / Economic Development

Conditional Cash Transfers as a Punishment Tool: Evidence from Mexico's PROGRESA - Pablo Balan, Harvard University; Mauricio Fernandez Duque, CIDE; Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University

Extractive Institutions, State Capacity and Horizontal Accountability: The case of oversight institutions of subnational governments for the Quality of Democracy in Brazil. - Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, EAESP-FGV; Ivan Filipe Fernandes, Federal University of ABC; Marco Antonio Carvalho Teixeira, EAESP-FGV

Institutions as Tools in the Competition to Rule: Political Markets as Third-party Enforcement for Rule of Law - Mona Lyne, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Veto Players and Economic Growth: Evidence for Latin American and East Asian Countries. - Jose Alexandre Ferreira Filho, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO

Alberto Fuentes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Chicago