Part 1：Social Trust and Informal Finance. Chapter 1. Significance of the Sociological Study of Informal Finance -- Chapter 2. Concepts, Methods, Research Findings and Innovations. - Chapter 3. Traditional Social Trust and the Rise of Informal Finance in City D.-Chapter 4. Social Trust Rupture...

We examine households' temporary international migration response when faced with shocks in rural Kyrgyzstan. Using a household fixed effects model, we find that while a drought shock increases migration, a winter shock reduces migration. We argue that this difference is because of the trade-off...

This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...