a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others … willingness-to-teach-kids-tolerance measure, that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values. More … precisely, economic and social, but not political, globalization has this effect, as shown by using the KOF Index of …

Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … social mobility decreases the closer one gets to the extreme top of the income distribution. We study the occupational … occupations for 185 (81 percent) of them, and 60 percent grew up in Social Group I, which implies an overrepresentation for Social …

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the … areas from reforms that decrease it. We study separately how social trust, interacted with the different types of political …

in terms of both social interactions and social capital (the value of social interactions offered by each agent) for a …This paper studies social-tie formation when individuals care about the geographical location of other individuals. In … our model, the intensity of social interactions can be chosen at the same time as friends. We characterize the equilibrium …

is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …