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' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …
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This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...
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Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...
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not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society-trust-and explore how trust … unemployed exhibit lower trust in people, institutions, and in general. By contrast, no such differences exist for those who have …
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alternative estimation approaches and alternative ways of measuring ethnic diversity. Our results also show that trust, which is … probability of engaging in informal work. Our results point to the need for policies that promote trust between diverse ethnic …
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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … trust, reconciliation, and community engagement than stayees, whereas the differences between international returnees and … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …
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This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins … of trust, especially the link to the design of political institutions. We then provide empirical evidence consistent with …
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security affects citizens' trust towards formal institutions-that is, government and police. The empirical analysis focuses on …
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This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and … in the social contract and lack of trust that governments would protect them. Mistrust driven by exposure to the Great … suggest that economic events that lead to changes in social trust have lasting legacies by affecting government and citizen …
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have lower levels of violence today. This effect is driven by improved nation building and higher trust towards post …
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