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Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties
Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …
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Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2002
This paper analyzes an early modern German economy to test alternative theories about guilds. It finds little evidence to support recent hypotheses arguing that guilds corrected market failures relating to product quality, training, and innovation. But it finds that guilds were social networks...
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Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds
Dessí, Roberta; Olgivie, Sheilagh - 2003
Merchant guilds have been portrayed as social networks that generated beneficial social capital by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action. This social capital, it is claimed, benefited society as a whole by enabling rulers to...
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The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning : Work-Related Training and Social Capital
Ruhose, Jens - 2019
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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A Matter of Trust? Political Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...
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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
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The Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022
In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee...
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