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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
high-growth aspiration projects. In particular, a strong property rights system is important for high-growth aspiration …
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159947
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence
Falk, Armin - 2015
for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011171
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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question : Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993949
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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann - 2015
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable...
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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8–4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation ofCompensatory Damages
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional lossesare from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death ofa child; the third-worst is the death of a parent...
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