and nuclear resources. We examine whether transiency of residence and life satisfaction play a role in influencing …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …

between generalized social trust, on the one hand, and confidence in political institutions and satisfaction with democracy … and effective democracy, research has produced rather weak and mixed support for the idea that the socially trusting …

citizen, as well as the transmission mechanisms through which policies and institutions affect life satisfaction. We find that … legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …