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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
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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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855632
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2016
return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573312
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Broadband Internet and Social Capital
Geraci, Andrea - 2018
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...
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Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Arshad, Junaid; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2019
Microfinance contracts have enormous economic and welfare significance. We study, theoretically and empirically, the problem of effort choice under individual liability (IL) and joint liability (JL) contracts when loan repayments are made either privately, or publicly in front of one's social...
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Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit social appropriateness norm of actions in the bribery game and the …, are less likely to trust than those in an isomorphic role in the ultimatum game. We also uncover the underlying mechanism …
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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