Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269371 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P90
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions.This paper investigates the effect of emigration on the quality of home-country institutions. Using consider cross-sectional as well as dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a positive effect on the quality of institutions (as measured by standard democracy and economic freedom indices) in the migrants' home countries. The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and estimation methods.
JEL: 
O1
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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