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the University System of Georgia to look more in depth at the effects of the HOPE Scholarship on degree completion in …
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A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
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research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem … to be about as negatively affected as Roma across the four states, which indicate that vulnerability inflicted by …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less. …
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, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …
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In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as …). Compared to other measures of trust, using this technique has several advantages: It makes more efficient use of information by … to trust using data from the European Social Survey, we analyze their personal, demographic, and regional determinants …
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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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 … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …
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