“...Happiness research is based on the idea that it is fruitful to study empirical measures of individual welfare. The most common is the answer to a simple...”

“...An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in...”

“...We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front page during the period 1998-2007...”

“...We show that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that there are clear microeconomic patterns in the...”

“...We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984–1990. The data are based on surveys of business people...”

“...There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered when investigating levels of consumption that appear to be hard to justify. The...”

“...We present a model where agents can inflate the cost of goods needed to start an investment project and inflation variability increases monitoring costs. We...”