Social identity and economic policy

M Shayo - Annual Review of Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
I review evidence that individuals associate themselves—or identify—with groups in two
fundamental ways: ingroup bias and conformity to group norms. The evidence spans many …

The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries

FJ Elgar, A Stefaniak, MJA Wohl - Social science & medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Can social contextual factors explain international differences in the spread of COVID-19? It
is widely assumed that social cohesion, public confidence in government sources of health …

Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability

W Lutz, E Striessnig, A Dimitrova… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Sustainable development (SD) as popularized by the Brundtland Commission and politically
enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals has been the explicit focus of …

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation

JF Schulz, D Bahrami-Rad, JP Beauchamp, J Henrich - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) psychology: Measuring and mapping scales of cultural and psychological distance

M Muthukrishna, AV Bell, J Henrich… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural
distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of …

The easterlin paradox

RA Easterlin, KJ O'Connor - Handbook of labor, human resources and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with
income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of …

Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

LC Windsor, G Yannitell Reinhardt, AJ Windsor… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this paper we explore whether countries led by women have fared better during the
COVID-19 pandemic than those led by men. Media and public health officials have lauded …

Beyond Hofstede and GLOBE: Improving the quality of cross-cultural research

RL Tung, A Verbeke - Journal of international business studies, 2010 - Springer
managerial choice or economic performance based on samples that include only one or a
few countries. Even when considering only the research published between 2006 and 2009 …

United we stand, divided we rule: how political polarization erodes democracy

E Arbatli, D Rosenberg - Democratization, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Although there is a broad consensus among political scientists that polarization is
detrimental to democracy, very few empirically investigate the links between political …

Non-invariance? An overstated problem with misconceived causes

C Welzel, L Brunkert, S Kruse… - … Methods & Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars study representative international surveys to understand cross-cultural differences
in mentality patterns, which are measured via complex multi-item constructs. Methodologists …