The treatment of endogeneity

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Table of contents

General Introduction 
1 Do Natural Resources Condition the Aid – Governance Relationship? 
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Literature and hypotheses
1.2.1 The misty governance effect of foreign aid
1.2.2 The role of natural resources
1.2.3 The role of bilateral versus multilateral donors
1.3 The data and the variables
1.3.1 Variables of interest
1.3.2 Control variables
1.4 Estimation procedure
1.4.1 The model
1.4.2 The treatment of endogeneity
1.5 Benchmark regressions
1.5.1 Do multilateral and bilateral aid have a direct effect on governance?
1.5.2 Do natural resources undermine the positive effect of aid on governance?
1.5.3 Does the effect of aid on governance depend on the type of natural resource?
1.6 Robustness regressions
1.6.1 Alternative measure of governance
1.6.2 Alternative estimators
1.6.3 Sample selection
1.6.4 Alternative measure of bilateral aid
1.6.5 Time fixed effects
1.6.6 Extended sample
1.7 Conclusion
Appendices I
1.A.1 Defining and measuring governance
1.A.2 Governance, a channel from aid to growth
1.A.3 The benefits of good governance
1.B.1. Descriptive analysis of African countries
1.C.1. The direct effect of total ODA on governance
2 Understanding the Link Between Aid and Corruption: A Causality Analysis 
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Literature review
2.2.1 From aid to corruption
2.2.2 From corruption to aid
2.3 Method and data
2.4 Results
2.4.1 Main estimations
2.4.2 Additional estimations
2.5 Robustness checks
2.6 Conclusion
Appendices II
2.A.11 Summary of the literature
2.B.1 Descriptive statistics for the CPI
2.B.2 Additional unit root tests for corruption
2.B.3 Additional tables of results
3 Is Aid Efficient? 
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Why and how focusing on efficiency?
3.2.1 A background on the aid-productivity nexus
3.2.2 A focus on efficiency
3.3 Our empirical strategy
3.3.1 The relationship between aid and efficiency
3.3.2 The data
3.4 Results
3.4.1 The direct effect of aid on efficiency
3.4.2 The conditional effects of aid on efficiency
3.4.3 Robustness checks
3.5 Conclusion
Appendices III
3.A.1. An insight into the aid-investment nexus
3.B.1. The issue of instrumentation
4 The Aid – Migration Link: How does Unemployment Affect Donors’ Policies? 
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Empirical strategy
4.2.1 The panel gravity model
4.2.2 The issue of simultaneity
4.3 Empirical results
4.3.1 Aid allocation
4.3.2 Migration flows
4.3.3 Summary of our policy implications
4.4 Robustness Checks
4.5 Conclusion
Appendix IV
4.A.11 Descriptive analysis
4.B.1. Additional estimation results
4.C.1. Supplemental estimation results
4.D.1. Summary of hypotheses and implications
General Conclusion 
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