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This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
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We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
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social influence changes when some agents redistribute their trust, and we provide a complete characterization of the social …
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We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...
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parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …
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Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to …
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to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
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