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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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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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This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...
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study trust and reciprocity in the same context. For all-male groups, we find the same lack of superiority of interaction … treatments over no interaction. For all-female groups, some very simple social interactions have a positive impact on trust. …
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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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Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...
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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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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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