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
- Faculty Director
- Professor of Classics
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Senior Fellow | Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
- Former Faculty Director
- 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
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Center for Ocean Solutions
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Executive Director
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021–2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Woods Institute for the Environment
- Postdoctoral Scholar | Department of Sociology
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Related Working Papers
- Dupas, P., Fafchamps, M., & Hernandez-Nunez, L. (2024). Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation on Relative Rank Signaling.
- 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.