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Leader Value Added : Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders

Previous literature suggests that leaders matter for growth in general. This paper asks which leaders matter and develops a methodology to estimate the growth contribution of individual leaders and calculate its precision. The findings show that few leaders have statistically significant contrib...

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Main Authors: Easterly, William, Pennings, Steven
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
NATIONAL LEADERS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
TEACHER VALUE-ADDED
POLITICAL ECONOMY
DEMOCRACY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/787101587041484119/Leader-Value-Added-Assessing-the-Growth-Contribution-of-Individual-National-Leaders
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33609

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/787101587041484119/Leader-Value-Added-Assessing-the-Growth-Contribution-of-Individual-National-Leaders
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33609

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