paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by … substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow …

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing … individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …

There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics …. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the … data. Using common specifications, measures of volatility, and other treatments of the data, four of the six data series …