Stephen Knack

(Deceased since 2019-05)

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• Are larger countries really more corrupt?
  by Knack, Stephen & Azfar, Omar
• Aid dependence and the quality of governance : a cross-country empirical analysis
  by Knack, Stephen
• Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : a critique of the cross-country indicators
  by Knack, Stephen
• The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists.
  by Knack, Stephen
• Polarization, politics, and property rights : links between inequality and growth
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence.
  by Knack, Steve
• Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Trust and Growth.
  by Zak, Paul J. & Knack, Stephen
• Social capital and the quality of Government : evidence from the U.S. States
  by Knack, Stephen
• Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth.
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments
  by Philip Keefer & Stephen Knack
• Trade intensity, country size and corruption
  by Stephen Knack & Omar Azfar
• Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
  by Brautigam, Deborah A. & Knack, Stephen
• Gender and corruption
  by Swamy, Anand & Knack, Stephen & Lee, Young & Azfar, Omar
• Gender and Corruption
  by Anand Swamy & Stephen Knack & Young Lee & Omar Azfar
• Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform
  by Heckelman, Jac & Knack, Stephen
• Boondoogles and expropriation : rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses.
  by Knack, Stephen
• Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
  by Knack, Stephen & Rahman, Aminur
• Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote.
  by Knack, Steve
• Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data.
  by Knack, Stephen
• Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
  by Knack, Stephen & Rahman, Aminur
• Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data
  by Stephen Knack
• Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation.
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid
  by Paxton, Pamela & Knack, Stephen
• Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration
  by Knack, Stephen
• The worldwide governance indicators and tautology : causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ?
  by Langbein, Laura & Knack, Stephen
• Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross-Country Empirical Tests
  by Stephen Knack
• Aid and trust in country systems
  by Knack, Stephen & Eubank, Nicholas
• International aid and financial crises in donor countries
  by Dang, Hai-Anh & Knack, Steve & Rogers, Halsey
• The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None?
  by Laura Langbein & Stephen Knack
• Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration
  by Knack, Stephen
• Aid quality and donor rankings
  by Knack, Stephen & Rogers, F. Halsey & Eubank, Nicholas
• Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators
  by Knack, Stephen & Keefer, Philip
• Gender and Corruption
  by Anand V. Swamy & Stephen Knack & Young Lee & Omar Azfar
• Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics
  by Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen
• Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development
  by Knack, Stephen & Zak, Paul J.
• Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?
  by Knack, Stephen
• Second generation governance indicators
  by Knack, Stephen & Kugler, Mark & Manning, Nick
• Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis
  by Knack, Stephen & Kropf, Martha
• Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence
  by Knack, Stephen
• Election Day Registration: The Second Wave
  by Knack, Stephen
• Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension
  by Knack, Stephen & Keefer, Philip
• Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996
  by Knack, Stephen
• Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology?
  by Knack, Stephen & Kropf, Martha
• Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting
  by Knack, Stephen & Kropf, Martha
• Contract Intensive Money
  by Clague, Christopher & Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen & Olson, Mancur
• Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies
  by Clague, Christopher & Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen & Olson, Mancur
• For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting
  by Knack, Stephen & Kropf, Martha
• Election-day registration and turnout inequality
  by Knack, Stephen & James, White
• The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92?
  by Knack, Stephen
• Trust, assocational life, and economic performance
  by Knack, Stephen
• Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections
  by Knack, Stephen & Kropf, Martha
• Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries
  by Clague, Christopher & Gleason, Suzanne & Knack, Stephen
• Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats?
  by Knack, Stephen & White, James
• Empowerment as a zero-sum game
  by Knack, Stephen
• Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout
  by Knack, Stephen
• Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data
  by Knack, Stephen
• Donor fragmentation
  by Knack, Stephen & Rahman, Aminur
• Governance and growth: measurement and evidence
  by Knack, Stephen
• Crossing the threshold : an analysis of IBRD graduation policy
  by Heckelman, Jac C. & Knack, Stephen & Rogers, F. Halsey
• The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance : theory and evidence
  by Balan, David J. & Knack, Stephen
• Aid tying and donor fragmentation
  by Knack, Stephen & Smets, Lodewijk
• When do donors trust recipient country systems ?
  by Knack, Stephen
• Aid Quality and Donor Rankings
  by Knack, Stephen & Rogers, F. Halsey & Eubank, Nicholas
• Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs
  by Smets, Lodewijk & Knack, Stephen & Molenaers, Nadia
• Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy
  by Stephen Knack & F. Rogers & Jac Heckelman
• The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence
  by Balan, David J. & Knack, Stephen
• Building or bypassing recipient country systems : are donors defying the Paris declaration ?
  by Knack, Stephen
• It's only words : validating the CPIA governance assessments
  by Knack, Stephen
• Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance
  by Stephen Knack & Nick Manning
• Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation
  by Knack, Stephen & Smets, Lodewijk
• Mapped In or Mapped Out? The Romanian Poor in Inter-household and Community Networks
  by Maria Amelina & Dan Chiribuca & Stephen Knack
• Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems
  by Knack, Stephen
• Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs
  by Lodewijk Smets & Stephen Knack & Nadia Molenaers
• International aid and financial crises in donor countries
  by Dang, Hai-Anh & Knack, Stephen & Rogers, F. Halsey
• World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy
  by Smets, Lodewijk & Knack, Stephen
• The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment
  by Galiani, Sebastian & Knack, Stephen & Xu, Lixin Colin & Zou, Ben
• Interactions among donors'aid allocations : evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold
  by Knack, Stephen & Xu, Lixin Colin & Zou, Ben
• Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?
  by Stephen Knack
• Unbundling institutions for external finance : worldwide firm-level evidence
  by Knack, Stephen & Xu, L. Colin
• World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance
  by Smets, Lodewijk & Knack, Stephen
• Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
  by Stephen Knack & Philip Keefer
• On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies
  by Annen, Kurt & Knack, Stephen
• Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank
  by Reinsberg, Bernhard Wilfried & Michaelowa, Katharina & Knack, Stephen
• Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds
  by Eichenauer, Vera & Knack, Stephen
• The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
  by Sebastian Galiani & Stephen Knack & Lixin Colin Xu & Ben Zou
• Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds
  by Eichenauer, Vera & Knack, Stephen
• Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance.
  by Clague, Christopher & Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen & Olson, Mancur
• Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout
  by STEPHEN KNACK
• Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  by KNACK, STEPHEN
• Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies.
  by Clague, Christopher & Keefer, Philip & Knack, Stephen & Olson, Mancur
• The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment
  by Sebastian Galiani & Stephen Knack & Lixin Colin Xu & Ben Zou
• Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets : evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries
  by Knack, Stephen & Biletska, Nataliya & Kacker, Kanishka
• Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence
  by Knack, Steve & Xu, Lixin Colin
• Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid
  by de la Cuesta, Brandon & Milner, Helen V. & Nielson, Daniel Lafayette & Knack, Stephen
• Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank
  by Reinsberg, Bernhard & Michaelowa, Katharina & Knack, Stephen
• World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy
  by Lodewijk Smets & Stephen Knack
• Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds
  by Vera Z. Eichenauer & Stephen Knack
• On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies
  by Annen, Kurt & Knack, Stephen
• World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance
  by Lodewijk Smets & Stephen Knack
• Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ?
  by Annen, Kurt & Knack, Stephen
• Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform
  by JAC C. HECKELMAN & STEPHEN KNACK
• Moving Up the Ladder : An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy
  by Dobronogov, Anton & Knack, Stephen & Wilson, James Michael
• AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH
  by JAC C. HECKELMAN & STEPHEN KNACK
• Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries
  by Stephen Knack & Nataliya Biletska & Kanishka Kacker
• INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES
  by Stephen Knack & Philip Keefer
• World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance
  by Lode Smets & Stephen Knack