Trust or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable … mean by "confidence", what the differences between optimism and confidence are and how the onset of confidence can possibly … be explained. Also, we analyze the economic effects of a lack of or the erosion of confidence. The paper intends to …

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen ethnischer Heterogenität, Sozialkapital (Vertrauen, freiwilliges Engagement, Mitgliedschaft … Sozialkapital haben die Projektergebnisse den erwarteten negativen Zusammenhang zwischen objektiver, d.h. statistisch ausgewiesener …

the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …

The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and … the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 …

way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …

Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we … estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake …