Governments that levy predatory regulation and provide few weak legal institutions draw businesses into the unofficial …, we find that retail shops face very high levels of predatory regulation and have frequent contacts with private … protection rackets. In addition, we show that higher levels of regulation are associated with weaker legal institutions and a …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes across generations …. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people’s attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by …

about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …

; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities’ desires … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …

interventions designed to change attitudes. We analyze anti-Semitic attitudes drawing on individual-level survey results from … between 1890 and 1933 are powerful predictors of anti-Jewish attitudes today. There is evidence that transmission takes place …

The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social … exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by …