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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
, and in the community. While earlier studies have found important age patterns (often U-shaped) and social context effects … couples, and for those who have lived for longer in their communities. A strong sense of community belonging is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909906
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Saving for a (Not so) Rainy Day : A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2014
High transaction and contracting costs are often thought to create credit and savings market failures in developing countries. The microfinance movement grew largely out of business process innovations and subsidies that reduced these costs. We examine an alternative approach, one that infuses...
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018
We examine whether shared collective experiences can help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official matches played between 2000 and 2015, we find that individuals...
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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction Among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400 …,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly …. The data presented here are useful on their own to study community-level variation, and can also be used to provide …
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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
The paper reviews the growth performance of different groups of Asian economies, confirms the role of openness as a key factor explaining the growth differences among the Asian economies, and undertakes a preliminary investigation of the role of social capital and institutions. The role of...
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Kosher Pork
Drazen, Allan - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spending as antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we present an alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in their information about the economic situation,...
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The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good : Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand
Jacobsen, Grant - 2010
This paper develops a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household's decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful. The model generates predictions about (1) participation...
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Public Goods in Trade : on the Formation of Markets and Political Jurisdictions
Casella, Alessandra - 2010
The current debate in Western Europe centers on the relationship between economic and political integration. To address this problem, we construct a simple general equilibrium model in which the returns to trading are directly affected by the availability of a public good. In our model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138063
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The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation
Kuminoff, Nicolai - 2010
Households "sort" across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these individual choices in markets and in other institutions influences the supply of amenities and local public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138319