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Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2009

the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …

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See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011

Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last decades. The responsibility of social disengagement has been often attributed to pervasive busyness and the rising pressure of time. In this paper we argue that computer-mediated interaction, and...

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Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health

Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011

The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a representative sample of the Italian...

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Hard to Forget: Long-lasting Effects of Social Capital Accumulation Shocks

Amodio, Francesco - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012

Very few contributions have dealt with the analysis of specific determinants of social capital accumulation and destruction. Even if limited in scale, the analysis of precise historical events can help in discerning the dynamics of social capital and its persistence. The case of Italian...

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The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit...

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Job Instability and Family Planning: Insights from the Italian Puzzle

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010

This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of couples’ childbearing decisions in Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple matter”, the analysis accounts for the characteristics of both the possible parents. Our results do not support...

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The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Growing Hyper-technological Economy

Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010

Paper presented at the Conference “From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability”, Ancona, Italy, 3-5 December 2009. <p> Abstract <p> We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized...</p></p>

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Social capital, labour precariousness and the economic performance. An empirical assessment of the strength of weak ties in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2005

This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...

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The Role of Social Capital in Economic Development

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2007

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the causal nexus connecting social capital's diverse aspects to the "quality" of economic development in Italy. The analysis accounts for three main social capital dimensions (i.e. bonding, bridging and linking social capital) and measures them...

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The fragility of social capital

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2009

parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …

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