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The paper investigates the relation between social capital and life satisfaction focusing on the distinction between bonding and bridging. Using the latest version of the combined World and European Values Surveys, the authors first address the question of measurement of social capital by means...
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Over the past decade the international community, especially the World Bank, has conducted programs to increase local public service delivery in developing countries by improving local governing institutions and creating social capital. This paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer...
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In previous literature, social capital has been hypothesized as a substitute for other forms of capital, such as physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers'access to social capital via participation in community organizations...
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Links between social capital, human capital, and product imitation are studied in an overlapping generations model of endogenous growth where the key benefit of social capital is to promote imitation. There is also a two-way interaction between imitation and human capital. Building social...
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investment, which in turn require trust. This paper reports on trust in a development context. The paper uses trust experiments …, a post-experiment survey, and econometric analysis relating trust to identity and other personal attributes in the … commercial experience. The paper reviews cultural priors that can be expected to affect trust and distinguishes between …
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in HIV prevalence will lead to a 1 percent decline in trust, controlling for other determinants of social capital. If one …
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capital provides long-term benefits such as better access to credit and a higher level of trust in the community as a source …
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social groups and government-provides new insights into policy design. Solidarity within social groups creates ties (bonding …
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Social capital - in the form of general trust and strong civi norms that call for cooperation when large … societies with greater trust tended to have governments that performed significantly better. The authors used survey measures of … capital (as measured by an index of trust, volunteering, and census response), government performance is rated higher, based …
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individuals dominate the process. Propensity score analysis reveals that the JSIF has had a causal impact on improvements in trust …
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