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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703557
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects … several dimensions of social capital. One identification strategy uses panel information to estimate value-added models. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416938
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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … is conducive to per capita income growth and that social capital affects this growth indirectly by fostering innovation …. Our estimates suggest that there is no direct role for social capital to foster per capita income growth in our sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703394
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Benedetto, Marco Alberto De; De Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884216
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Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theories about neighbours' influence on children based on social capital, cohesion and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886139
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886145
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy; Yandle, Bruce; Naufal, George S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959531
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273182
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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Shah, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252282