The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index is extensively used in academic research to show how economic freedom relates to a wide array of economic and social outcomes. Given this, it is important that researchers understand the goal of the index and how to properly utilize this index in...

This article develops an indicator of Internet awareness on corruption as described in Goel <italic>et al</italic>. (2012) to see how this impacts both corruption perceptions and corruption experience. The results confirm the finding of Goel <italic>et al</italic>. (2012) that corruption perceptions are highly influenced by...

This paper develops an indicator of Internet awareness of corruption as described in Goel et al. (2012) to see how this impacts both corruption perceptions and corruption experience. The results confirm the finding of Goel et al. (2012) that corruption perceptions are highly influenced by...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to examine whether the financial satisfaction (FS) of a state’s residents is affected by the funding ratio of the state’s public pension. Design/methodology/approach: A multilevel hierarchal probit model that control for the funding ratio at the state...

In 1998, 46 states were involved in a Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with the tobacco industry. The other four states settled on their own. Our goal is to answer a counter factual question: how would these four states have fared had they been included in the MSA? We use data from Viscusi...