Leader Value Added
Previous literature suggests that leaders matter for growth in general. This paper asks which leaders matter and develops a methodology to estimate the growth contribution of individual leaders and calculate its precision. The findings show that few leaders have statistically significant contributions; it is difficult to know who is good for growth and who is not. The paper also finds that the most intuitive estimate of a leader’s contribution—the average growth rate during tenure—is largely useless for measuring his or her true contribution. Consequently, many leaders with statistically significant growth effects are surprises. Moreover, leaders in non-democratic countries are no more likely to be statistically significant than leaders in democratic ones.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020-04
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| Subjects: | NATIONAL LEADERS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, TEACHER VALUE-ADDED, POLITICAL ECONOMY, DEMOCRACY, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/787101587041484119/Leader-Value-Added-Assessing-the-Growth-Contribution-of-Individual-National-Leaders https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33609 |
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