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development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …. Given that successful economic development presupposes the congruence between formal institutions and social norms, this …
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This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
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Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matterʺ for economic … development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held … by substantial parts of society’s members are an important determinant of its institutions. It is further argued that …
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The civil war in Syria has been raging since 2011. We ask whether civil war experience affects voluntary cooperation and its coordination by means of peer punishment. To answer that question, we ran experiments with Syrians and Jordanians, and use a victimization index to measure the individual...
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development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …. Given that successful economic development presupposes the congruence between formal institutions and social norms, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167110
Does religion play a positive role in helping people cope with the terrible experiences they have been through? Does … the level of resorting to religion differ depending on the conditions trauma victims live in? We shed some light on these …
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