This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …

Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of …

of labor market institutions and government intervention. In particular, technology change is induced by rigid wage … commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … variables related to protection of property rights and regulation. We test these relationships by combining country …. Our results indicate that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to … property rights. …

reach precisely the tax rate preferred by the capitalists (induced by a very large political pressure on the government …