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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| contributor.author | Becchetti, Leonardo | - |
| contributor.author | Castriota, Stefano | - |
| contributor.author | Rossetti, Fiammetta | - |
| date.accessioned | 2008-06-19T09:32:46Z | - |
| date.available | 2008-06-19T09:32:46Z | - |
| date.issued | 2007-06 | - |
| identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2108/534 | - |
| description.abstract | A widespread opinion, supported by many theoretical contributions of philosophers and
economists, states that economic prosperity has positive consequences on material wellbeing
which are traded off by negative “moral” consequences and social externalities. An opposite
school of thought challenges this view by emphasizing that economic growth has also
beneficial moral consequences in terms of higher tolerance, affection towards democracy,
generosity and social consensus for competition. This paper focuses on the presumed
positive effect of economic growth on tolerance, so far unexplored in the literature from an
empirical point of view. Using panel data from the German Socioeconomic Panel on around
33,000 individuals over the period 1992-2004 we find a robust positive relationship between
real personal household income and self-declared tolerance, both in levels and first
differences. Our results suggest that growth may have positive moral consequences assumed
that it translates from aggregate into individual level. | en |
| format.extent | 204757 bytes | - |
| format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
| language.iso | en | en |
| publisher | CEIS | en |
| relation.ispartof | http://hdl.handle.net/2108/538 | - |
| relation.ispartofseries | Quaderni CEIS; 254 | - |
| subject | social capital | en |
| subject | morality | en |
| subject | ethics | en |
| subject | tolerance | en |
| subject | immigration economic growth | en |
| subject.classification | SECS-P/01; Economia politica | en |
| title | The social consequences of economic growth: the relationship between real household income and self-declared tolerance | en |
| type | Working Paper | en |
| subject.jel | D64; Welfare economics : Altruism | en |
| subject.jel | I31; Welfare and poverty : General welfare | en |
| subject.jel | O15; Human resources, human development, income distribution, migration | en |
| subject.jel | Z13; Economic sociology, economic anthropology | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Quaderni
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