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Jordan Pattison is a MA in Public Policy with Certificate in Research Methods (MACRM), Harris School of Public Policy.

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  Student Summer Scholar Research Fellow

  Grand Valley State University

  May 2020 - Sep 2020 - Allendale, Michigan, United States

  AbstractResearch on long term economic development has consolidated around the central role of economic and political institutions. Within these institutional spaces, structural policies represent a subset of incentive structures with their own effects on economic behavior. To capture the separate effects of both institutional environments and structural policies, I construct an Institutional Index (II) and a Structural Policy Index (SPI) to evaluate their effects on income levels and short term growth rates for non-high-income states. This paper finds that both the II and SPI predict variations in income levels between non-high-income states, with the II producing a larger and more statistically significant estimate. Conversely, no robust relationship between either the II or SPI and short term growth rates was found. I conclude with case studies of Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, and Uganda, to illustrate the differential economic effects of the II and SPI in four southern African states.