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When crime tears communities apart : social capital and organised crime
Calamunci, Francesca; Frattini, Federico F. - 2023
What is the long-term effect of organised crime presence on social capital accumulation? By leveraging novel social … capital and organised crime data, this study investigates this question within the Italian landscape. In an instrumental … variable (IV) setting, we exploit the forced resettlement law that compelled organised crime members living in the South of …
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
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The fragility of social capital
Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - 2009
This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and...
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195
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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429801
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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 1998
This paper discusses how local tax rates of the business tax are set when communities compete for capital as a mobile factor. In a theoretical model communities provide public inputs financed by a tax on capital income in order to maximize a general objective function, which includes residents'...
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Local business taxation and competition for capital: the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428182
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Happiness, ideology and crime in Argentine cities
Di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2009
who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …
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Does unemployment increase crime? : evidence from Italian provinces
Speziale, Nino - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 13/15, pp. 1083-1089
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418198
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Identifying the impact of deterrence on crime : internal versus external instruments
Bun, Maurice J. G. - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 1/3, pp. 204-208
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