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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221209
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Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime : A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993865
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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832585
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Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2018
Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910741
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selectionbiases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by thequestionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactiveexperiments and representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255643
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195
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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Janke, Katharina - 2013
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an … about personal safety co-move with police recorded violent crime. To identify the causal effect of recorded violent crime on … increase in crime – the 2011 England riots – to identify the causal impact of a large exogenous crime shock on physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077295
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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012
program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103464
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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429801
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084137