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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294804
In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations' power to shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328867
By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by …, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political dividends. We find that the over-reporting of growth rates does indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052759
Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if … implications arising from this trust. We explore whether populations reporting low levels of confidence in the health care system … essential trips, compared to those with lower health care system confidence. Regions with high trust in the government but low …
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chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified … by cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at the county level, has a significant long-term impact on trust. However …, the effects differ according to the relationship considered. Overall, trust emerges as a binder between an individual and …
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to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312479
to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168203
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological indicators of stress among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168334
In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations' power to shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168428
By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by …, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political dividends. We find that the over-reporting of growth rates does indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168495