Table of Contents:
  • The development puzzle / Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad
  • Precolonial centralization and institutional quality in Africa / Nicola Gennaioli and Ilia Rainer
  • Can delegation promote fiscal discipline in a federation? Evidence from fiscal performance in the Indian states / Stuti Khemani
  • The political economy of education in Kenya / Michael Kremer
  • A theory of corruption, political exclusion, and windfalls / Pedro C. Vicente
  • Explaining conflict in low-income countries : incomplete contracting in the shadow of the future / Michael McBride and Stergios Skaperdas
  • Information and incomplete investor protection / Karl Wärneryd
  • Islamic resurgence and social violence during the Indonesian financial crisis / Daniel L. Chen
  • Social identity and redistributive politics / Moses Shayo.