Do Educated Leaders Matter

By Timothy J. Besley, Jose G. Montalvo, Marta Reynal-Querol. 2011

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014, unknown): “Recent studies also show that the identity of leaders, and especially their education, matters for growth (Jones and Olken, 2005; Besley et al., 2011).”
• Law Enforcement, Municipal Budgets and Spillover Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Italy (2017, background): “The latter relies on the assumption that education level is positively related to competency (Galasso and Nannicini, 2011; Besley et al., 2011).”
• The Glittering Prizes: Career Incentives and Bureaucrat Performance (2019, background): “…leaders on economic growth (Jones and Olken 2005; Besley et al. 2011) and the impact of CEOs on firm performance (Bertrand and Schoar 2003; Bertrand 2009; Kaplan et al. 2012) have been extensively studied, we know very little about what motivates bureaucrats and how this affects…”
• Who Becomes a Politician (2017, unknown): “See, for example, Osborne and Slivinski (1996), Besley and Coate (1997), Pande (2003), Chattopadhyay and Duflo (2004), Jones and Olken (2005), Washington (2008), Besley, Montalvo, and Reynal-Querol (2011), Meyersson (2014).”
• The economic consequences of Hugo Chavez: A synthetic control analysis (2016, background): “Besley et al. (2011) use an expanded version of the same dataset to identify the effect of leaders’ level of education on growth, showing that having a more educated leader leads to higher growth rates. Easterly and Pennings (2014) take a growth accounting approach and argue that “only a small fract”