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Does trust favor macroeconomic stability?

Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries …, we show that higher trust is associated with lower macroeconomic instability. We use the inherited trust of Americans as … an instrumental variable of trust in their origin country to overcome all potential reverse causality concerns. We use …

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The co-evolution of social capital and financial development

Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2011

This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over … the twentieth century. I use cross generations inherited trust of Americans with foreign ancestors to track trust in their … home country in 1913 and 1990. The paper documents a positive cross-section relationship between trust and financial …

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Conditions de collecte et santé subjective : analyse sur données européennes

Clark, Andrew E.; Vicard, Augustin - HAL - 2007

It is fairly banal to say that subjective health, the most widely-used health variable, is measured with error. In particular, it would seem important to know how subjective health information depends on the way in which it is collected, as this latter varies widely between countries and...

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How Do You Feel? The Effect of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China

Milcent, Carine; Wu, Binzhen - HAL - 2013

During the 2003-2006 period, subjective health status in Chinese rural areas improved. We used a unique household longitudinal survey to analyze how the introduction of a public insurance system has contributed to the change. This program is based on a doubly voluntary process: counties decide...

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Etilé, Fabrice; Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2006

This paper tests for income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health (SAH). It also constructs a synthetic measure of clinical health to decompose the effect of income on SAH into an effect on clinical health (which is called a health production effect) and a reporting...

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Workers behavior and labor contract : an evolutionary approach

Hiller, Victor - HAL - 2008

This article investigates the co-evolution of labor relationships and workers preferences. According to recent experimental economics findinggs on social preferences, the workforce is assumed to be heterogeneous. It is composed by both cooperative and non-cooperative workers. In addition, firms...

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Work organization and preferences dynamics

Hiller, Victor - HAL - 2007

We present a model with intergenerational transmission of preferences providing a joint explanation of preference evolution and of work organization changes in a society. We focus on the preference for autonomy, defined as an individual's degree of initiative and the value they attach to self...

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Religion and Fertility : The French Connection

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

The dataset "Enqute Mode de Vie des Franais" is the first opportunity to measure the impact of religion and religiosity on individual fertility behaviors in France. Indeed, the French laws make it very difficult to collect data on the individual's religious variables. With Poisson regressions, I...

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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications

Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...

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Healthcare access for migrants in China : A new frontier

Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2010

How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare-access exclusion in the workplace: a financial one (via income) and a legislative one (from the "hukou"). We use 2006 data from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five of the most...

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