Working Paper: NBER ID: w9846
Authors: William Easterly; Ross Levine; David Roodman
Abstract: The Burnside and Dollar (2000, AER) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970 -93 to 1970 -97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period 1970 -93. We find that the Burnside and Dollar (2002, AER) finding is not robust to the use of this additional data.
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JEL Codes: F35; O40; O11; O23
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| international aid (F35) | economic growth (O49) |
| quality of the policy environment (D78) | economic growth (O49) |
| aid-policy interaction term (J78) | economic growth (O49) |
| aid-policy interaction term (J78) | international aid (F35) |
| international aid (F35) | quality of the policy environment (D78) |
| international aid (F35) | economic growth (O49) |