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diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …
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-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …
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Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research … social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country evidence of another important determinant of … trust - the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require (and provide …
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capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
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higher trust in EU institutions and support for common EU policies. Different perceptions of the invasion cause a …
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The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe’s economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...
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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa … significantly affects individual trust behaviour. The low income subjects from both racial groups invest significantly less in …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
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We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results indicate that close personal contact with minorities increases trust … towards a generic immigrant. We replicate the result that individuals coming from more ethnically diverse areas trust …
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