We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people … which tolerance spontaneously arises. Policy may affect the evolution of tolerance in distinctive ways, and there may be … efficiency as well as equity reasons to promote tolerance. …

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious tolerance that developed in continental Europe from the Peace of … Westphalia onwards. By matching a unique historical dataset about religious tolerance in 1,278 Prussian cities with valuable …

-averse decision-makers, who make trade-offs between subjective expected performance and robustness. This framework accounts for … sample size is large enough or robustness is an important concern. We illustrate the practical value of such a framework by … studying the issue of rerandomization. Rerandomization creates a trade-off between subjective performance and robustness …

Assessing the robustness of the results of econometric analysis is a long standing subject of lively research. The … that increased attention to influential sets is warranted and comprehensive robustness measures for regression analysis are …