A Online Appendix for “Government Turnover and the Effects of Regime Type: How Requiring Al- ternation in Power Biases against the Estimated Economic Benefits of Democracy”

the Effects of Regime Type: How Requiring Alternation in Power Biases against the Estimated Economic Benefits of Democracy” This appendix provides additional information about the formal model, the dataset and coding rules, as well as the different robustness tests mentioned in the article. The first section provides detailed calculations for arriving at the expression of the bias from the formal model presented in Section 3.3 of the paper. The second section of this appendix presents information on the construction of the main variables used in the analysis, and the third section gives a more detailed discussion of the “real-time DD” measure. The fourth section provides a list of a selection of previous empirical studies on the economic effects of democracy, and information regarding their choice of democracy measure and results. The fifth section includes tables with descriptive statistics and lists of the samples used in different analyses. The final four sections of this appendix provide a large number of tables with robustness tests.