The Impact of Political Leaders' Profession and Education on Reforms

By Axel Dreher, M. Lamla, Sarah M. Lein, F. Somogyi. 2009

297 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jose G. Montalvo
2. Marta Reynal-Querol
3. Timothy J. Besley
4. Axel Dreher
5. Christoph Moser
6. Niklas Potrafke
7. Muhammad Shahbaz
8. Andreas Bergh

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Marta Reynal-Querol
2. Jose G. Montalvo
3. Timothy J. Besley
4. Axel Dreher
5. Christoph Moser
6. Diego F. Hernández
7. Andreas Bergh
8. Christopher Kilby

Citations in the corpus

• Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014, unknown): “27The importance of the professional background for politicians’ quality and their performance is confirmed by Dreher et al. (2009), who show that the professional background of a head of government matters for the implementation of market-liberalizing reforms.”
• The perfect finance minister: Whom to appoint as finance minister to balance the budget? (2014, unknown): “We will follow the related literature (e.g. Dreher et al., 2009; Göhlmann and Vaubel, 2007; Hau and Thum, 2009) and draw upon the human capital of politicians, which they acquired during their education and previous employment, in order to measure their quality (cf. Becker, 1993).”
• Do Markets Care About Central Bank Governor Changes? Evidence from Emerging Markets (2010, background): “Similarly, Dreher et al. (2006) show the educational and professional background of a head of government to be decisive for the implementation of reforms.”
• Politicians’ Attributes and Institutional Quality in Africa: A Focus on Corruption (2015, unknown): “Axel Dreher et al. (2009), reaches the conclusion from a global survey that the education level and profession of political leaders can significantly explain their drive toward policy reformation.”
• Fiscal Policy Reaction to the Cycle in the OECD: Pro- or Counter-Cyclical? (2014, unknown): “The data concerning the background of politicians draw on Dreher et al. (2009).”
• Do Educated Leaders Matter (2011, background): “…as exogenous, determined by the death of the leader rather than 1 There is also a growing literature on the impact of public leaders on reforms (Dreher et al., 2009) or the conduction of monetary policy (Göhlmann and Vaubel, 2007) 2 See Besley (2005) for a recent survey of the literature on…”