female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We find that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century … colonial period. But gender inequality gradually declined during the latter half of the colonial era, and after Uganda …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for …

public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes … productivity and altruism. Within such a model wealth is entirely held in the steady-state by the families with the highest degree … of altruism. Under plausible assumptions both public debt and social security are neutral à la Ricardo, while increasing …