countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum). Although our pool of respondents differs greatly from the conservative … foundations and business leaders who contribute respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and …

What political legacy can we expect from the Coronavirus pandemic? Drawing evidence from past epidemics, we find that … to the COVID-19 outbreak. These results imply that the Coronavirus may leave behind a long-lasting political scar on the …

pandemic, from March 2020 until January 2021. We document significant heterogeneity across countries and demographic groups in …

Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question quot …

about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … between education and the quality of government …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … model is that individuals in low trust countries want more government intervention even though the government is corrupt. We … government's role, as well as on changes in beliefs and in trust during the transition from socialism …

.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …