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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742948
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010
alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278600
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Does Economic Freedom Moderate Perceived Corruption for Firms in India?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Stivers, Adam - 2023
Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among firms. However, the relationship is far from linear and a number of complex interactions make it fairly nuanced. We show that greater competition may accentuate the problem of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469407
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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282155
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The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …, and trust from 196 Uruguayan managers (half of them employed in worker cooperatives) and 92 first-year undergraduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006030
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Worker cooperatives and democratic governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289913
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286262
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The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change
Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653431
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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … and may have even reversed it in the post-crisis years. As institutions and macroeconomic conditions continue to improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401763
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The Causal Effect of Trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David B.; … - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984477