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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

, and in the community. While earlier studies have found important age patterns (often U-shaped) and social context effects … couples, and for those who have lived for longer in their communities. A strong sense of community belonging is associated …

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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking

DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010

Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...

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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia

Helliwell, John F. - 1996

The paper reviews the growth performance of different groups of Asian economies, confirms the role of openness as a key factor explaining the growth differences among the Asian economies, and undertakes a preliminary investigation of the role of social capital and institutions. The role of...

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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018

We examine whether shared collective experiences can help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official matches played between 2000 and 2015, we find that individuals...

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400 …,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly …. The data presented here are useful on their own to study community-level variation, and can also be used to provide …

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Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day : A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 2014

High transaction and contracting costs are often thought to create credit and savings market failures in developing countries. The microfinance movement grew largely out of business process innovations and subsidies that reduced these costs. We examine an alternative approach, one that infuses...

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Minimum Lot Size Restrictions : Impacts on Urban Form and House Price at the Border

Gyourko, Joseph E.; McCulloch, Sean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the impact of more stringent minimum lot size restrictions across small border areas of neighboring communities using data from the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index (WRLURI) surveys. Economically meaningful effects are found on the built environment, not just house...

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