There is a great deal of interest in the causes and consequences of conflict in Africa, one of the poorest areas of the … world where only modest economic progess has been made. This paper asks whether post-colonial conflict is, at least in part …, a legacy of historical conflict by examining the empirical relationship between conflict in Africa since independence …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to …

and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …

. Our analysis demonstrates that taste conflict first dilutes but later reinforces class interests. When the degree of taste … diversity is low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income distribution and some targeted … diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special interest groups and …

status concerns. We then discuss the effects of such cultural diversity on wages and show that, for equally productive …

This Paper develops a theory of diversity in work groups within organizations. Diversity is determined by the group … diverse teams are more prone to conflict. The Paper shows that the relative performance of heterogeneous and homogeneous … groups depends on the leader's authority to make personnel decisions, especially whether the leader can replace team members …