The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is
full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in …

This paper explores and compares health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in the context of existing governance …

Abstract Using the Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic dataset
covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of …

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-
normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting …

The purpose of this paper is to present and assess the literature about the determinants of
public spending. Its originality is the adoption of a methodological perspective. Does …

Literature has argued that income inequality crowds out trust. However, whether income
inequality makes people less trusting depends on how they perceive income inequality …

We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share
of a population that thinks that people in general can be trusted. We make use of new data …

Most modern welfare states offer an extensive array of services and benefits that are wholly
or partly financed by tax revenue. One missing link in explaining the long-run sustainability …

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented,
but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating …

Generalized trust has become a prominent concept at the nexus of several disciplines, and
the wide differences in trust between different societies continue to puzzle the social …