while economic deterrence models are fully based on maximizing economic utility; social psychology models explain human behavior by examining the underlying attitudes, norms and beliefs. tax morale is defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes. however, determinants of tax morale need to be investigated for a more comprehensive understanding of tax morale. in this paper we analyze the mos...

Abstract We study the importance of family ties on economic behavior. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey (WVS) regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children are expected to have for their parents in 81 countries. We show that with strong family ties home production is higher and families larger, labor force parti...

19. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse if necessary and identify by block number) This report stems from a NORDA evaluation of DMA's prototype World Vector Shoreline (WVS). NORDA personnel evaluated the ease of reading the WVS documentation, understanding the file structure, inputting the data from a tape file into program data structures, and plotting the shoreline vectors. Those who participated i...

We explore the relationship between emotional well-being and economic freedom. Using data for a sample of 12 countries from wave 2 of the World Value Survey (WVS) and the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index, we find that people living in more economically free societies are more likely to report the presence of positive affect and absence of negative affect. Specifically, people who live ...

INTRODUCTION The concept of social cohesion has invoked debate due to the vagueness of its definition and the limitations of current measurements. This paper attempts to examine the concept of social cohesion, develop measurements, and investigate the relationship between social cohesion and individual health. METHODS This study used a multilevel study design. The individual-level samples fro...

Over the last decades, large international datasets such as the European Social Survey (ESS), the European Value Study (EVS) and the World Value Survey (WVS) have been collected to compare value means over multiple time points and across many countries. Yet analyzing comparative survey data requires the fulfillment of specific assumptions, i.e., that these values are comparable over time and ac...

This article uses data from World Value Survey (WVS), Bank and Polity IV to explore the relationship between country characteristics, which include economic situations political systems, polarization of citizens’ ideology on confidence in government. Through scatter diagram regression analysis, we assume that degree democracy government have an inverted U-shaped relationship, GDP level is same....

Whereas parents typically believe that their children increase their happiness (e.g., Eibach & Mock 2011), decades of research have found little support for this contention (Dolan et al. 2008). In a recent paper, Nelson et al. (2013) address the issue with analyses of the World Values Survey (WVS; 2006) and an experience-sampling dataset (Carstensten et al. 2010). Though the authors carefully a...

This cross-national study examines factors that impact eHealth infrastructure and usage growth. The independent variables in the study are: confidence in heath care system, perception of one’s state of health, per capita national expenditure in health, % of people belonging to voluntary organizations concerned with health, human development index, cost of health care per capital, and cost of he...

Although the topic of corruption in South Asia has attracted a great deal attention, extant research on individual-level factors is sparse. With this background, paper examines effect selected determinants Asian people’s justifiability corruption. For analysis, uses World Value Survey (WVS) dataset and carries out its own survey as well. Using multinomial logistic regression (MLR) binomial (BLR...