This paper investigates whether people value the environmental goods created as a result
of the human-nature interaction. Using the novel face-to-face survey data collected in …

During Communism, party members and their relatives were typically privileged elites in
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). At the same time …

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. Using
individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we demonstrate that bribing for …

Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life
satisfaction or happiness levels. This paper asks an important but understudied question …

The flourishing literature in economics, sociology, and religious studies finds that religious
individuals are happier than the nonreligious. This chapter summarizes the most influential …

The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by
focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe …

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in
Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership …

What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a
dataset of over 1.9 million individuals from 156 countries via the Gallup World Poll spanning …

We study the effect of euro adoption on various property crimes for a group of Eurozone
countries with data from 1993 to 2019. We hypothesize euro adoption has a positive …

Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party
members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants …