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also investigate other dimensions and find no differences in terms of trust, while there is evidence of some differences in …
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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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capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
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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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Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and life satisfaction, reference income exerts a...
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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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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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attitudes (trust in domestic and international institutions, populism and immigration); and iii) social aspects … is a sensible increase in trust in domestic institutions. We also document that the pandemic had heterogeneous and …
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We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people … which tolerance spontaneously arises. Policy may affect the evolution of tolerance in distinctive ways, and there may be … efficiency as well as equity reasons to promote tolerance. …
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revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious tolerance that developed in continental Europe from the Peace of …We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … Westphalia onwards. By matching a unique historical dataset about religious tolerance in 1,278 Prussian cities with valuable …
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