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Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks: Does Income and Wealth Matter?

Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To...

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

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642149

Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)

Michallet, Benjamin; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Facchini, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens’ pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this...

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A Stage Model of Developing an Inclusive Community

Vaughn, Billy E.; Mlekov, Katarina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The Community Inclusion model described in this paper characterizes the stages through which a diverse group of people living within the same community develops into an inclusive community. The model is described in terms of its usefulness in the assessment of a community’s current stage of...

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Gender Issue and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa

Minoia, Giulia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international level, it is therefore necessary to identify...

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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney

Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...

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Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...

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A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor … provides a test of the link between Scotch-Irish settlers and the culture of honor. The results confirm that high numbers of … stronger in counties with high headcounts of pigs and sheep in the 19th century, confirming the herding origin of the culture …

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”Thou shalt not covet ...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...

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Mapping the Evolution of "Clusters": A Meta-analysis

Maggioni, Mario A.; Uberti, T. Erika; Gambarotto, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the “cluster literature” contained in scientific journals from 1969 to 2007. Thanks to an original database we study the evolution of a stream of literature which focuses on a research object which is both a theoretical puzzle and an empirical...

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