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We estimate the distributional effects of freedom and income on happiness for East Asian Chinese societies through an … ordinal parametric quantile regression approach. The results show that freedom and income exhibit positive and significant … effects across societies and happiness levels. The freedom effects generally become larger for those at higher happiness …
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The economic success and innovative outcomes of the high performing East Asian countries, albeit often characterized as low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that...
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This paper investigates the role of social capital in determining one's competitiveness. The analysis exploits the data of the PISA test in math because competitive occupational choices often require high quantitative skills. The empirical results highlight that a higher level of trust in school...
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This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and innovation in high-performing East Asian economies. Rapid economic growth and innovation in these economies contradicts the presumed positive link between social trust and innovation suggested in the literature, as these...
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