New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's 'Aid, Policies, and Growth' (2000)

By William R. Easterly, Ross Levine, D. Roodman. 2003

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Aid Quality and Donor Rankings (2010, neutral): “Nevertheless, the evidence linking the quality of policies to the effectiveness of aid has been disputed by some studies (Hansen and Tarp 2000; 2001; Easterly, Levine, and Roodman 2003; 2004), while others have questioned the criteria for assessing selectivity (Amprou, Guillaumont, and Guillaumont…”
• It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But That Depends (2006, neutral): “In one paper (Burnside and Dollar 2004a), they directly respond to the criticism brought forward by Easterly et al. (2004).”
• Socio-economic driving forces of arable land conversion: A case study of Wuxian City, China (2005, methodology): “It is critical to conduct thorough examination and experimentation between large number of explanatory variables for determining the best suitable regression models and to have good knowledge of policy issues to construct a valid statistics-based policy analysis (Burnside and Dollar, 2000; Brumm, 20”
• Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, neutral): “There is an abundant literature on the ineffectiveness of foreign aid on growth (Mosley et al. 1987; Doucougliagos & Paldam, 2008; Easterly et al., 2004).”
• Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, neutral): “For example, Easterly et al (2003) and Easterly (2003) show that the Dollar & Burnside (2000) results are sensitive to the inclusion of additional years of data and question 21 the validity of the exclusion restrictions for their instrumental variables strategy.”