preexisting vulnerabilities, the government's mobility restriction policy, institutions (democracy), and culture (individualistic … culture and trust). Preexisting vulnerabilities (that is, the share of the elderly, urbanization, obesity prevalence, and air … restriction, democracy, and culture indicators are not significantly associated with the pandemic outcomes. However, government …

interactions and political activism among those in regular employment can either improve the quality of aggregate institutions or …

counterpart. This effect does not depend on the type of political regime, nor the stage of development, and, to a large extent, it … reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …

have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation …-representative data sets from India. Across all three data sets, the unconditional religion-specific gap in latrine ownership and latrine …. Further, the estimates do not show evidence of religion-specific differences in other sanitation practices, such as …

economic reforms. The authors test this hypothesis using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business … probability of reform in the sample is 57.1 percent. "--World Bank web site …