Stephen F. Knack

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Stephen F. Knack

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Stephen F. Knack's Degrees

PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley

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Stephen F. Knack's Published Works

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Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation (1997) (7073)
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES (1995) (5087)
Trust and Growth (1998) (2904)
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub‐Saharan Africa* (2004) (1096)
Gender and Corruption (1999) (1046)
WHY DON'T POOR COUNTRIES CATCH UP? A CROSS‐NATIONAL TEST OF AN INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION (1997) (891)
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross-Country Empirical Tests (2001) (742)
Property and contract rights in autocracies and democracies (1996) (562)
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links Between Inequality and Growth (1999) (547)
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy (2004) (525)
Donor Fragmentation and Bureaucratic Quality in Aid Recipients (2004) (524)
Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States (1999) (513)
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance (1999) (498)
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? (2010) (456)
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout (1992) (308)
Measuring Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Critique of the Cross-Country Indicators (2006) (276)
Trade intensity, country size and corruption (2003) (273)
Social capital, growth, and poverty : a survey of cross-country evidence (1999) (256)
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES CROSS-COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE (1995) (255)
Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, and Economic Development (2002) (246)
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments (2007) (239)
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis (1999) (219)
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses (2003) (207)
Does "Motor Voter" Work? Evidence from State-Level Data (1995) (177)
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid (2008) (174)
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (2007) (172)
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment (2014) (166)
Institutions and the convergence hypothesis: The cross-national evidence (1996) (158)
Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Reform (2005) (149)
Explaining voter turnout patterns : An information theory (1995) (149)
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics (2005) (147)
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings (2010) (133)
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance (2001) (127)
Does rain help the Republicans? Theory and evidence on turnout and the vote (1994) (125)
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions (2001) (119)
International Aid and Financial Crises in Donor Countries (2009) (117)
Sovereign Rents and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration (2008) (113)
Voided Ballots in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis (2003) (108)
Aid, Economic Freedom, and Growth (2009) (91)
Election-Day Registration and Turnout Inequality (2000) (91)
For Shame! The Effect of Community Cooperative Context on the Probability of Voting (1998) (81)
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators (1995) (68)
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension (1996) (65)
Democracy, Governance, and Growth (2003) (62)
Core techniques and cross-cutting issues (2002) (56)
Election-day Registration (2001) (55)
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation (2012) (52)
The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology: Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both? (2008) (50)
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 (1999) (49)
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems (2013) (49)
Contract Intensive Money (1999) (47)
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence (2002) (41)
Are Larger Countries Really More Corrupt? (1999) (41)
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? (2013) (39)
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries (2017) (38)
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave (1998) (35)
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank (2017) (34)
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs (2012) (33)
Aid and Trust in Country Systems (2009) (33)
Roll‐Off at the Top of the Ballot: International Undervoting in American Presidential Elections (2003) (32)
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists (1993) (30)
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries (2001) (28)
Did States' Motor Voter Programs Help the Democrats? (1998) (28)
Viewers Like You: Community Norms and Contributions to Public Broadcasting (2003) (27)
Boondoggles and Expropriation: Rent-Seeking and Policy Distortion When Property Rights are Insecure (2002) (26)
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? (2002) (25)
Trends in corruption and regulatory burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (2011) (24)
On the Delegation of Aid Implementation to Multilateral Agencies (2015) (23)
Oil and aid revenue produce equal demands for accountability as taxes in Ghana and Uganda (2019) (23)
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy (2014) (23)
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community (2001) (22)
When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems? (2012) (20)
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy (2012) (20)
Unbundling Institutions for External Finance: Worldwide Firm-Level Evidence (2015) (19)
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets : evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries (2017) (18)
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public Sector Governance (2015) (18)
The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and its Effect on Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence (2011) (18)
Which Donors, Which Funds? The Choice of Multilateral Funds by Bilateral Donors at the World Bank (2014) (17)
Social Polarization, Political Institutions, and Country Creditworthiness (2002) (16)
Interactions Among Donors'Aid Allocations: Evidence from an Exogenous World Bank Income Threshold (2014) (16)
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness (2002) (15)
Russian Federation - National and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption (2013) (15)
Mapped In or Mapped Out?: The Romanian Poor in Inter-Household and Community Networks (2004) (14)
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation (1998) (12)
How does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? (2020) (12)
The reappearing American voter: Why did turnout rise in '92? (1997) (10)
Taxation Without Representation? Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action Toward Taxes, Oil, and Aid (2017) (10)
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment (2016) (10)
Crossing the Threshold: An Analysis of Ibrd Graduation Policy (2011) (9)
Which Donors, Which Funds? (2015) (9)
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout (1992) (8)
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? (2019) (8)
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds (2016) (8)
Making a Difference How Women in Politics Affect Health and Education Outcomes. (2000) (8)
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds (2015) (7)
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance (2018) (5)
Macroeconomic and sectoral approaches (2002) (4)
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data (2000) (3)
Income Thresholds and Aid Responses (2013) (3)
Aid Intensity , Donor Fragmentation & the Quality of Governance This draft : March 2003 First draft : November 2002 ( This paper will be revised substantially in July-August 2003 ) (2003) (2)
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? (2000) (1)
Unbundling Institutions for External Finance (2015) (1)
Determinants of Economic Growth (1997) (1)
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy (2011) (0)
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy (2020) (0)
Are Larger Countries Really Or has evidence that (2000) (0)
Many people inside and outside the World Bank gave comments to the team. Valuable com (2011) (0)
Abstracts in French and Spanish (2012) (0)
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence of Comparative Economics (2015) (0)
Trust Fund disbursements to developing countries: who benefits and why? (2014) (0)
Center for Development Economics, (2000) (0)
TRUST A ND G ROWTH (2001) (0)
The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and Its Effect on Economic Performance (2011) (0)
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs (2013) (0)
It's Only Words: Validating the Cpia Governance Assessments (2013) (0)
SOCIAL CONNECTBDDSS AND VOTER PllTICIPATIOK: BVIDENCB J'ROX 'l'HB 1991 NBS PILOT STUDY (1999) (0)
Voting Equipment, Minorities and the Poor (2004) (0)
Mark Irving Lichbach, The cooperator's dilemma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. xx + 309 pages. $39.50 (cloth). (1998) (0)
Bibliographic Note This Report Draws on a Wide Range of World Bank Docu- Ments and on Numerous outside Sources. Background Pa- Pers and Notes Were Prepared (2002) (0)

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