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This paper uses data for nineteen industrial countries over the period 1960-1985 to examine the evidence for international convergence of technical progress. Several models of convergence, including a model in which convergence is affected by changes in a country's openness to trade, are...
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World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …
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This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …
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This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures …
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In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per …
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This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different reasons neither increased migration nor international...
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fifth of the twentieth century. The empirical work makes use of data from three waves of the World Values survey covering …
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This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive …
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also their best friend. Finally, we use the Gallup World Poll to show that although the overall well-being effects of …
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-2012, using data from the Gallup World Poll …
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