Alluding to theories about relative economic status and behavior, this paper studies if relative income mobility, or the intergenerational change in income positions, affects interpersonal trust. Empirically, the question is brought down to an application with US General Social Survey data. For...

Market innovations would greatly benefit America's space policy. As American commercial exploitation of space - with communications, weather, and earth-observing satellites - has expanded, so has government regulation of commercial space. Just like markets for other goods and services, some of...

In this article I explore the contemporary normative meanings of friendship, unpacking the subject through two different questions: “what is a good friend?” and “what is an intimate friend?” Drawing on survey data from a national representative sample (<i>n</i> = 1142), the topic is explored in...

The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...

Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and...

There is a view in the literature that curbing corruption is concurrently growth augmenting. We present evidence that such is not always the case: independent of its indirect effects, a drop in corruption is growth augmenting only if there has been a persistent decline in corruption in the past.

En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de los determinantes del capital social individual medido en forma de participación en asociaciones y en diversas formas de acción colectiva. la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida en el trabajo disponía de una información, que permitía evaluar en qué medida...

Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper...

Finisher hog production in North America has seen a shift toward larger production units and contract-organized production since circa 1990. Given the efficiency gains and conversion costs associated with contract production, growers may have to choose between long term commitment through...

The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of child fostering on health nutritional outcomes of under-five children in host households in Cameroon. The data used comes from the recent Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS-V, 2018). Three anthropometric measures of health and...