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social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
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an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance … of trust in facilitating economic growth and development and it is therefore important to investigate elements of social … organisation that encourage or inhibit the development of trust. We use fixed effects and instrumental variable regression and …
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background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …, contributed 15% more in a public goods game, displayed greater "social capital" such as trust in the government and more …
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Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …
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February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing adolescents who responded to our survey shortly before … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
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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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This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …
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