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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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, vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic has been closely related to people's trust in their governments given governments …. Social capital, in this context, refers to community trust, collaboration, and engagement that create social bonds between … for institutional trust (especially trust in the medical system). However, this general association between trust in other …
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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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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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This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures—encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...
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We exploit a unique dataset merging data on individual socio-economic characteristics and political participation in an Italian municipality to investigate the relationship between ethnic diversity in residential neighborhoods and individuals' propensity to vote. We document a sizable negative...
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This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
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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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