A Wake-Up Call for the Aid Optimists: U.S. Aid, Authoritarian Recipients, and the Aid-Leader Survival Relationship

• In Event: Foreign Finance/Aid, State Survival, and Economic Growth

Brief Overview

By conducting survival analysis, our results suggest that the effectiveness of aid varies depending on the time variable before and after the Cold War and the types of authoritarian regimes.

Authors

• Songeun Lee, University of Houston

• Byungwon Woo, Yonsei University