世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

计量经济分析 = Econometric analysis

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2307%2F3343168.pdf

Development as Freedom

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

We investigate whether income inequality affects subsequent growth in a cross-country sample for 1965-90, using the models of Barro (1997), Bleaney and Nishiyama (2002) and Sachs and Warner (1997), with negative results. We then investigate the evolution of income inequality over the same period and its correlation with growth. The dominating feature is inequality convergence across countries. This convergence has been significantly faster amongst developed countries. Growth does not appear to influence the evolution of inequality over time. Outline

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/81822/1/02-28.pdf

Economic growth and income inequality

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.405653.de/diw_econsec0071.pdf

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide variety of human rights aspects. According to our results, terror substantially diminishes governments' respect for basic human rights such as absence of extrajudicial killings, political imprisonment, and torture. To some extent, civil rights are also restricted as a consequence of terrorism, while we find no effect of terrorism on empowerment rights.

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17159/1/mpra_paper_17159.pdf

Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/28935/1/584001886.pdf

Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/90442/1/CRC-PEG_DP_4.pdf

Axel Dreher

Papers

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking

Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?

Read my lips: The role of information transmission in multilateral reform design☆