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substantial reversal to state intervention if nowadays the world was hit by a shock of the size of the Great Depression …
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institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …
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Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...
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most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …- being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their …
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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …
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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …
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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
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