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The impact of social capital on crime: evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities' historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277209
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762273
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Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 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/10012269988
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Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin P. - 2015
such as economic growth, trade and crime. A recent literature goes further to illustrate how historical events and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500304
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Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
such as economic growth, trade and crime. A recent literature goes further to illustrate how historical events and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156477
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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; … - 2003
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/10010262013
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The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg - 2017
Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653257
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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653449
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Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study
Berson, Clémence; Laouénan, Morgane; Valat, Emmanuel - 2019
Many studies have proven the existence of discriminatory behavior from employers according to the origin of applicants. However, little is known about how these behaviors can be prevented. In this work, we assess how organization of recruitment in large companies affects ethnic discrimination....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005833
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Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019
We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two different approaches and data. First, we identify families with a preference for boys by using fertility stopping rules in a population of households whose children attend public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005857