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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Chapter 2. Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025609
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - In: Handbook of Economic Growth
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010869047
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645955
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The deep determinants of the middle-income trap
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017
The fundamental, underlying factors of development are often neglected when analyzing the question why countries experience a growth slowdown at the middle-income range. Although these so-called `deep determinants' such as geography and institutions have been found to be decisive for the break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205933
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The deep determinants at more subtle stages of development : the example of the middle-income trap phenomenon
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017
The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration) have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by many empirical studies. However, so far, very little has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205937
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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann - 2015
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035397
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The Deep Roots of Economic Development in the U.S. States
Murphy, Ryan; Nowrasteh, Alex - 2016
The “Deep Roots” literature investigates the effects of deep cultural variables on outcomes. We attempt to identify how these deep cultural variables actually affect per capita output by expanding Putterman and Weil’s (2010) inquiry on the effects of State History and Agricultural History...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034835
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312487