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Never Waste a 'Good' Crisis! Priming the Economic Aspect of Crises Fosters Social Capital Build-Up and Prosociality
Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P.; Koop, Christel; Matakos, … - 2021
vulnerability reduced trust in government and respect for authority and increased preferences for redistribution. Yet information … reduces interpersonal trust. These information effects also map into policy preferences beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Our …
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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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Chapter 17. Trade and Cultural Diversity
Bisin, Alberto; Verdier, Thierry - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 439-484). 2014
This chapter surveys the recent economic literature on the relationships between globalization and cultural diversity. We first review the different channels through which international integration interacts with cultural diversity across individuals, communities, and nations. We then present...
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A cross-country analysis of the risk factors for depression at the micro and macro level
Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - 2010
Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246569
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COVID-19 Outbreak, Social Response, and Early Economic Effects : A Global VAR Analysis of Cross-Country Interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824578
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263745
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to understand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262142
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One World One COVID
Patel, Keshav - 2020
The whole world is fasting through an unprecedented time of pandemic COVID-19 which has brought the world under an umbrella. Suffering, economy fall down fear, uncertainty, heath challenges losing job, cost-cutting, every nation is phasing all these challenges during these days but this is one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095788
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The Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior : International Evidence
Klick, Jonathan; Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2013
Most industrialized countries have increased access to abortion over the past 30 years. Economic theory predicts that abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We use gonorrhea incidence as a metric of risky sexual behavior. Using a panel of 41...
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