International flows of people and institutional change |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA;2. Department of Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26501, USA;1. ITAM, Mexico;2. Princeton University, USA;1. University of Magdeburg, Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany;2. Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Germany;3. University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany;1. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise, Baylor University, USA;2. Department of Economics, Clemson University, USA |
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| Abstract: | International travel clearly increases human interaction over space and exposes societies to foreign influences, foreign ideas, and foreign institutions. Does international travel promote institutional change in a traveler's home country? This paper uses panel data from 149 countries to test the hypothesis of institutional change stemming from international travel. We generally find that foreign travel does not affect political institutions. In one sub-sample, we find limited evidence that international travel can be a determinant of institutional quality in the home country depending upon whether the home country is an autocracy or democracy. |
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| Keywords: | Institutions International travel Panel data C23 E02 O11 O43 |
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