Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269436 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P155
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification methods. Remarkably, the cross-sectional estimates are fully in line with the implied long-run relationship from dynamic panel regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development.
Subjects: 
migration
institutions
democracy
Development
JEL: 
O15
O43
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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