This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities (including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between measures of criminal activity and happiness and...

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...

Entrepreneurs take risk and build organizations that fuel the growth of economies. Number of studies have shown that risk taking is a personality trait as well as a result of contextual forces. It is affected by the perceived risk and the risk bearing capacity of an entrepreneur. Many studies...

Since the invention of the World Wide Web, game boxes, computers, cell phones, numeric pagers and blackberry, loads of information gathering, sharing and high-tech communication have evolved into new social structures known as (ICT) information and communication technology. This technology has...