Using panel data for 24 (OECD) countries during the period 1980–2004 this study examines how social trust affects fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in developed countries, trust underlies the d...

Banking regulation and supervision were designed to protect banks from failure, but this did not avoid the large number of banking crises recently experienced by OECD countries. Using binary response models for panel data and centering on OECD countries, this paper emphasizes the poor influence of regulation and supervision on banks’ soundness and presents the main determinants of banking crise...

Fossil fuels are the dominant form of storable energy, but their share in global energy supply is slowly diminishing due to climate mitigation policies. Alternative production from variable renewable sources for both stationary and mobile use requires some storage. Batteries current frontrunner this application, particularly with Li-ion batteries that reliable highly efficient. However, themsel...

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Over the past generations, Japan has shown that it is possible to achieve strong educational progress: In the 1960s, Japan still ranked 14 th among OECD countries in the proportion of people with university-level or vocational tertiary qualifications, today it ranks 2 nd just after Canada. However, in Japan, the number of science graduates remains below the OECD average. There are 1596 people w...

This paper focuses on the evolution of productivity in the telecommunications industries for 13 OECD countries over the period 1979-1998. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric approach that allows decompositions of changes in productivity into variations in efficiency and technical change. Moreover, it tests the existence of convergence in labor and total factor productivity level...

In this article, the authors present the most recently available data on the health care financing and delivery systems of the 24 industrialized member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). U.S. health expenditure performance is compared with the performance of other OECD countries. Thirty-six tables of data from 1960-90 are presented on health expenditu...