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Chapter 2. Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …

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Chapter 26. Social Capital

Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005

This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...

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Social capital and entrepreneurial activity: A pseudo-panel approach

Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kang, Youngho - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 47-60

accounts for differences in entrepreneurial activities. The findings suggest that trust measured by trust either in strangers …

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Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

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Respect, responsibility, and development

Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 36-47

trust and mitigate the negative macroeconomic effects associated with fractionalized societies. Our results are robust to …

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Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014

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Envy in the process of development: Implications for Social Relations and Conflict.

Gershman, Boris - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 8 (2013) 2, pp. 13-19

This article examines envy as an important cultural link between inequality, institutions, development, and conflict. It argues that envy can be either a source of strife and stagnation or an engine for peaceful competition and growth. The fundamental conditions that activate the constructive...

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