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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 …

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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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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption

Cai, Hongbin - 2010

This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...

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Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China

Chari, A.V. - 2017

This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the...

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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

Maurer, Noel - 2010

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...

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Land Reform and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2020

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative model and micro-level data. We study the 1988 land reform in the Philippines that imposed a ceiling on land holdings, redistributed above-ceiling lands to landless and smallholder...

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