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The relationship between trust, cognitive skills, and democracy : evidence from 30 countries around the world

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2019

trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the … of this variation provides evidence that the relationship strengthens with the level of democracy in a country. In a … second step, German separation and reunification is used as external variation in the level of democracy in the German PIAAC …

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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany

Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Trust and economic growth

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Schaik, Ton … - 2002

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

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Neither Communes nor Fiefs : King Owned Towns, Right Negotiations and Long Run Persistence. The Case of South Italy

Borghi, Elisa; Gatti, Fabio; Masciandaro, Donato - 2022

According to the literature, historical episodes of local self-governing institutions can explain why differences in socio-economic performances among different territories can persist over centuries. Such assumption has been tested comparing free city-states (Communes) and feudal towns in...

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...