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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008
-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770789
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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond J.; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218733
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Building Social Capital Through Microfinance
Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2014
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has proven difficult to identify empirically. We provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069841
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150644
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2007
and by corruption in a village-level road project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778287
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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy : What's New?
Helliwell, John F. - 2006
This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783345
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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks
Asquith, Brian - 2019
We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...
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