Three Essays on Development Economics: Social Capital, Cost of the Sanctions and Group-based Inequality in Iran

This dissertation contains three essays on the political economy and economic development in Iran. In the first paper, I investigate the political resource curse. The comprehensive literature on the relationship between democracy and income counts oil-rich countries in Middle East as outliers: the a...

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Main Author: Fesharaki, Sanaz
Other Authors: Economics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94419