Replication Data for: Foreign Aid, Human Rights and Democracy Promotion: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Does foreign aid improve human rights and democracy? We help arbitrate thedebate over this question by leveraging a novel source of exogeneity: the rotatingpresidency of the Council of the European Union. We find that when a country’sformer colonizer holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union duringthe budget-making process, the country is allocated considerably more foreign aid than are countries whose former colonizer does not hold the presidency. Using instrumental variables estimation, we demonstrate that this aid has positive effects on human rights and democracy, although the effects are short-lived after the shock to aid dissipates. We adduce the timing of events, qualitative evidence, and theoretical insights to argue that the conditionality associated with an increased aid commitment is responsible for th' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Democracy","Economic aid","Human rights","Natural experiment"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Does foreign aid improve human rights and democracy? We help arbitrate thedebate over this question by leveraging a novel source of exogeneity: the rotatingpresidency of the Council of the European Union. We find that when a country’sformer colonizer holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union duringthe budget-making process, the country is allocated considerably more foreign aid than are countries whose former colonizer does not hold the presidency. Using instrumental variables estimation, we demonstrate that this aid has positive effects on human rights and democracy, although the effects are short-lived after the shock to aid dissipates. We adduce the timing of events, qualitative evidence, and theoretical insights to argue that the conditionality associated with an increased aid commitment is responsible for th' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Does foreign aid improve human rights and democracy? We help arbitrate thedebate over this question by leveraging a novel source of exogeneity: the rotatingpresidency of the Council of the European Union. We find that when a country’sformer colonizer holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union duringthe budget-making process, the country is allocated considerably more foreign aid than are countries whose former colonizer does not hold the presidency. Using instrumental variables estimation, we demonstrate that this aid has positive effects on human rights and democracy, although the effects are short-lived after the shock to aid dissipates. We adduce the timing of events, qualitative evidence, and theoretical insights to argue that the conditionality associated with an increased aid commitment is responsible for th
Democracy; Economic aid; Human rights; Natural experiment