Overview
For this assignment, we will refer to the peer-reviewed journal article "The poverty effect of democratization" by Christoph Dörffel and Andreas Freytag. World Development 165 (2023) 106186. Reviewing the research presented there, answer the following questions:
Access this article and answer the following:
1. What is the research topic of the paper?
2. What is the research question of the paper?
3. What is the dependent variable?
4. What is the independent variable?
5. How many countries are in their sample?
6. What is the time period under analysis?
7. What is the authors' source for poverty data?
8. List three sources of previous literature cited in the literature review.
9. Table 1 on p. 7 has a table of descriptive statistics. We'll talk more about these soon, but for now: which has more observations in the sample used by the researchers, democracies or non-democracies?
10. The abstract provides a short overview of the research. According to the abstract, what are the findings of the research?