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television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
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types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. …
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economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
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We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...
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We model how the interplay between tax surveillance institutions and civic capital shapes taxpayers’ support for welfare state. We show that, when tax surveillance is tight, rational civic-minded individuals express greater support for welfare spending than uncivic ones. We provide empirical...
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empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and …. However, social trust decreases with online interactions. Several interpretations of these findings are discussed. …
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-being from the indirect effect possibly caused by the impact of SNS’s on trust and sociability in a SEM analysis. We find that … associated with lower social trust, which is in turn positively correlated with SWB. The overall effect of networking on …
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ideation. The survey was answered by 1,413 subjects with a mean age of 54.5. Of the subjects, 49% were male. Social trust is …. After controlling for various factors, the major findings are that both individual-level social trust and social trust … sample into urban and non-urban residents, particularized trust plays a role in deterring suicide ideation in urban areas …
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