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A Model of Dynamic Balance among the Three Spheres of Society – Markets, Governments, and Communities – Applied to Understanding the Relative Importance of Social Capital and Socia...

Wicks, Rick - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This paper revisits old questions of the proper subject and bounds of economics: Does economics study “provisioning”? or markets? or a method of reasoning, self-interested rational optimization? A variety of scholars and others in many fields make use of a taxonomy of society consisting of...

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Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Mahmud, Minhaj; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust … game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and correlations between the sent amount in the trust … game and stated expectations reveal that the amount sent in the trust game is a weak measure of trust. The fear of future …

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Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Mahmud, Minhaj; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment using a random sample of individuals in … rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between Hindus and Muslims in the trust experiment …: Hindus, the minority, trust other people less in general, and Hindus trust Muslims more than the other way around. <p> …

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Does stake size matter in trust games?

Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Mahmud, Minhaj; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size …

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The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections

Kotsadam, Andreas; Nerman, Måns - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This study investigates the effects of gender quotas in national elections on political participation, public policy, and corruption in Latin America. We are able to replicate the findings from previous research that women in politics do affect these outcomes, but only when we treat the number...

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Modeling the Effects of Economic Behavior in Determining the Organization of Society

Wicks, Rick - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

The three “spheres” of society (governments, markets, and communities) are widely acknowledged yet the overall organization is analyzed only rarely, and interactions between the spheres have perhaps never been modeled. Fiske’s four relational models (community-sharing, authority-ranking,...

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Investing in children's education: Are Muslim immigrants different?

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in their children’s education compared to non-Muslims. In particular, we want to assess whether educational inequalities between the children of Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants...

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Bridging the Gap for Roma Women: The Effects of a Health Mediation Program on Roma Prenatal Care and Child Health

Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

Roma, Europe’s largest minority, face poverty, social exclusion and life-long inequalities, despite the intensified efforts to alleviate their plight. Surprisingly, despite substantial funding aimed at improving Roma outcomes, there is a very little evidence on the effectiveness of these...

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The Part-Time Penalty for Natives and Immigrants

Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This study examines the part-time penalty for natives and immigrants in Sweden. We estimate an endogenous switching regression model, and the results indicate that there is evidence of self-selection into part-time and full-time jobs based on unobservable factors. Hence, individuals with...

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Sexual Orientation and Earnings in Sweden

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This paper examine earnings differentials between homo- and heterosexual individuals by identifying sexual orientation with the help of information from register data. Register data enable us to avoid the misclassifications of sexual orientation often mentioned as a potential bias in survey...

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