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The effect of social trust on achievement test performance of students in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Empirical results using Japanese data suggest that social trust improves student language and mathematics achievement test scores in primary and junior high school. After controlling for endogeneity bias, social trust had a greater effect on scores for primary school students than on scores for...

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E-participation: social capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We add to the literature by conducting the first empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and sociability, in a large and representative sample. We address endogeneity in online networking by exploiting technological...

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Online networks and subjective well-being

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results about the effect of social networking sites (SNS) use on individual welfare. We use a representative sample of the Italian population to investigate how actual and virtual networks of social...

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Online networks and subjective well-being

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We argue that the use of online networks may threaten subjective well-being in several ways, due to the inherent attributes of Internet-mediated interaction and through its effects on social trust and sociability. We test our hypotheses on a representative sample of the Italian population. We...

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Cooperation makes beliefs: climate variation and sources of social trust in Vietnam

Dang, Anh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

I investigate the origins of social trust within Vietnam. Combining a unique contemporary survey of households with historic data on climate variation, I show that individuals who were heavily threatened by negative climate fluctuation exhibit more trust in neighbors and other people in close...

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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance

Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

secession?”, and “Can development policies can be designed in a way that they don’t unwillingly trigger secession as a side … effect?”. Using a framework frequently applied in the literature on secession, it turns out (a) that under certain conditions … a secession threat can be used by a minority region to gain a higher level of decentralization than the larger part of …

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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...

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Raport Desk Research: samorządowa i obywatelska współpraca transgraniczna w województwie podlaskim. Przegląd literatury i dokumentów strategicznych

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The aim of this paper is to present the theoretical basis of public diplomacy and the characteristics of methods and areas of cross-border cooperation conducted by local governments in Podlaskie Voivodship. Report, in particular, draws attention to the civic and local government dimension of...

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Samorządowa i obywatelska współpraca transgranicznej w województwie podlaskim

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Poleszczuk, Jan; Sztop-Rutkowska, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Studies presented in this publication were aimed at provide data necessary for the conducting of local government and citizenship dimension of the enlarged Polish foreign policy in Podlaskie region. The main objective was to investigate the diagnosis, as the local government units,...

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Системный мониторинг социально-экономических противоречий в Российской Федерации

Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

In the article on the basis of the methodology of the theory of self-organization ana-lyzes the practice of monitoring social and economic contradictions in the Russian Federation. The author proposes to use as a methodological basis for indicative planning the system analysis of in-ter-level...

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