Stephen Knack

21.4k citations
110 papers · 12.8k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 43

Stephen Knack

102 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, ...299199520262005201510002.0k3.0k

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Stephen Knack
Comparison fields: 5 of 124
  • Development 2.6k
  • Safety Research 1.7k
  • Economics and Econometrics 5.3k
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.5k
  • Sociology and Political Science 6.7k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Stephen Knack, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 201913
2 201727
3 20164
4
Unbundling Institutions for External Finance: Worldwide Firm-Level Evidence
20152
5 20157
6
Interactions Among Donors'Aid Allocations: Evidence from an Exogenous World Bank Income Threshold
20143
7
Income Thresholds and Aid Responses
20131
8
When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems
20122
9 20094
10
Aid and Trust in Country Systems
20090
11 2007124
12 200521
13
Mapped In or Mapped Out? The Romanian Poor in Inter-household and Community Networks
20047
14 200311
15 2003154
16
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries
200112
17
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis
19994
18
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
199872
19 19977
20
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence
199651

About Stephen Knack

Stephen Knack is a scholar working on Development, Safety Research and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 110 papers that have together received 12.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include International Development and Aid (46 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (34 papers), Economic Growth and Development (30 papers), Corruption and Economic Development (18 papers), Local Government Finance and Decentralization (17 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (16 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (14 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Development (2.6k citations), Safety Research (1.7k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (5.3k citations). Stephen Knack has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Philip Keefer, Paul J. Zak, Deborah Bräutigam, Omar Azfar, Christopher Clague, Anand V. Swamy, Young Lee, Mancur Olson, Laura Langbein and Robert J. Barro. Their work appears in journals such as Public Choice, The Journal of Development Studies, PS Political Science & Politics, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Economic Growth.

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