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    <title>Local Financial Development and Household Welfare: Microevidence from Thai Households</title>
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    <description>Titel: Local Financial Development and Household Welfare: Microevidence from Thai Households
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Gloede, Oliver; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: We provide new micro evidence on the discussion about the relationship between financial development and welfare. Relying on the concept of local financial development our analysis focuses on three dimensions of household welfare: vulnerability to poverty, investment, and consumption smoothing. Even though we cannot find a significant effect on vulnerability, we provide evidence that financial development is correlated with higher investment and better possibilities to smooth consumption. The extent of both effects is also economically significant. Our results hold for alternative specifications and variations in the measurement of financial development.</description>
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    <title>Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?</title>
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    <description>Titel: Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Hernandez, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows in to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address data characteristics appropriately. The econometric analysis suggests that human trafficking occurs in well established routes for migrants and refugees. Victims are more likely to be transported to, and exploited in, host countries with suboptimal institutional quality levels. Countries whose nationals do not require a visa for short term visits are especially prone to being potential source countries. Legal status and regulation of commercial sex services does not affect the pattern of trafficking flows.</description>
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, we analyze whether non-charitable expenditures for administration, management and fundraising depend on the intensity of competition among NGOs and on the degree to which they are refinanced by governments. We control for NGO heterogeneity in various dimensions as well as major characteristics of recipient countries. We find that fiercer competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to excessive fundraising. Official funding tends to increase administrative costs. Nevertheless, officially financed NGOs spend relatively more on charitable activities since they are less concerned with collecting private donations through fundraising efforts.</description>
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    <description>Titel: Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Opfinger, Matthias; Gundlach, Erich
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our interpretation of the empirical results is that the indifference curves for religiosity and other commodities of the utility function are hump-shaped.</description>
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