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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of … 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

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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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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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Guilds, efficiency, and social capital : evidence from German proto-industry

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 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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Efficiency, fairness, and social cohesion in Europe and the United States : incomes, hours of work, and equality with an afterhought on Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016

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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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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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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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 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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