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Andrei Shleifer
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 519
Citations - 286543
Andrei Shleifer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government & Shareholder. The author has an hindex of 171, co-authored 514 publications receiving 271880 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrei Shleifer include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of Chicago.
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Human Capital and Regional Development
Nicola Gennaioli,Rafael La Porta,Rafael La Porta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world's surface and 96 percent of its GDP.
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Education and the Quality of Government
TL;DR: This article found that better educated people are more likely to report official misconduct, and that more frequent complaints encourage better behavior from officials, thus explaining the link between education and the quality of government.
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Why Does Democracy Need Education
Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +5 more
TL;DR: This article showed that education and democracy are highly correlated and empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation, which increases the likelihood of democratic revolutions against dictatorships, and reduces that of successful anti-democratic coups.
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Post-Communist Reform: Pain and Progress
Olivier Blanchard,Maxim Boycko,Marek Dabrowski,Rudiger Dornbusch,Richard Layard,Andrei Shleifer +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring are assessed, and the authors discuss how far this alternative strategy is likely to get.
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Who Owns the Media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world and find that almost universally the largest media firms are controlled by the government or by private families, and the adverse effects of government ownership on political and economic freedom are stronger for newspapers than for television.