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Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571667

The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK … Research Assessment Exercise period 2001-2008. I conclude that it is possible to produce an objective measure of world …

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Was Brexit caused by the unhappy and the old?

Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...

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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2008

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study averages within two populations. The paper's...

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Remittances, financial development, and growth

Giuliano, Paola (contributor); … - 2006

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in particular how local financial sector development...

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Family ties and political participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879347

Family values and the regulation of labor

Alesina, Alberto; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Giuliano, … - 2010

first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …

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The power of the family

Alesina, Alberto (contributor); Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2007

using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that …

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