We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious tolerance that developed in continental Europe from the Peace of … Westphalia onwards. By matching a unique historical dataset about religious tolerance in 1,278 Prussian cities with valuable …

Tolerance has the potential to affect both economic growth and wellbeing. It is therefore important to discern its …-oriented is related to different measures of tolerance. Regression analysis of up to 65 countries reveals that economic freedom is … positively related to tolerance towards homosexuals, especially in the longer run, while tolerance towards people of a different …

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic … growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as panel-data regressions. In addition we test for robustness with respect …

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic … growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as panel-data regressions. In addition we test for robustness with respect …

Tolerance - respecting individual choice and differences among people - is a prominent feature of modern European … informal institutions - that predict their level of tolerance towards gay people. Using the epidemiological method allows us to … rule out reverse causality. Out of the 46 factors examined, one emerges as very robust: a Muslim background. Tolerance is …

Tolerance is a distinguishing feature of Western culture: There is a widespread attitude that people should be allowed … to say what they want even if one dislikes the message. Still, the degree of tolerance varies between and within … economic freedom (i.e., lower government expenditures, lower and more general taxes and more modest regulation) on tolerance in …

Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where … different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the … willingness-to-teach-kids-tolerance measure, that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values. More …