José García Montalvo

TL;DR: Montalvo and Reynal-Querol as discussed by the authors showed that there is no relationship between ethnic fractionalization, ethnic conflict, and civil wars, and that there are at least three alternative explanations for this: First, it could be the case that the classification of ethnic groups in the Atlas Nadorov Mira (henceforth ANM) is not properly constructed.

TL;DR: This paper found that if the foreign aid over Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that a country receives over a period of five years reaches the 75th percentile in the sample, then a 10-point index of democracy is reduced between 0.5 and almost one point, a large effect.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the role that different indices and dimensions of ethnicity play in the process of economic development and finds that ethnic polarization has a large and negative effect on economic development through the reduction of investment and the increase of government consumption and the probability of civil conflict.

TL;DR: The authors used data on more than 1,000 political leaders between 1875 and 2004 to investigate whether having a more educated leader affects the rate of economic growth and provided evidence supporting the view that heterogeneity among leaders' educational attainment is important with growth being higher by having leaders who are more highly educated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the electoral impact of the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004, in Madrid, and found that the attacks had an important electoral impact, rejecting the hypothesis that the identity of the winner was unaffected by the attacks.