Governance and Institutions
The quality of institutions is critical in the guarantee of basic human rights and dignity. Good governance is also crucial in the fight against poverty. The King Center supports research on the determinants of governance quality and the factors that bring about inclusive, resilient, democratic institutions.
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- Donald L. Lucas Endowed Professor in Economics
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021–2022
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021–2023
- Professor of Political Economy
- Professor of Classics
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Senior Fellow | Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
- Faculty Director and the Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies
- Senior Fellow | Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
- Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor | School of Humanities and Science
- John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior
- Research Scholar | Stanford Internet Observatory
- Postdoctoral Scholar | Department of Political Science
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2020–2022
- Professor of the Practice of Law
- Associate Professor of Political Economy
- Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Interim Director and Executive Director
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021–2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Woods Institute for the Environment
- Postdoctoral Scholar | Department of Sociology
- The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Former Affiliated Researcher
- Professor of Biology
- Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor
- Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society
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Related Working Papers
- Abramitzky, R., Ben-Porath, N., Lavy, . V. ., & Palg, M. (2024). Can An Economic Crisis Shift Attitudes From Socialism to Capitalism? Evidence From a Quasi Natural Experiment.
- Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Jácome, E., Pérez, S., & Torres, J. D. (2024). Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020.
- Haber, S. (2024). The Rise and Fall Of The Resource Curse.