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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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The impact of social ties and third-party enforcement on collective action and growth : micro evidence from Peru
Keefer, Philip; Espinoza, Mauricio; Espinoza, Álvaro; … - 2019
Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, we document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater...
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Social networks and collective action in large populations : an application to the Egyptian Arab Spring
Deer, Lachlan; Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; König, Michael D.; … - 2024
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Mortality improvement rates : modeling, parameter uncertainty and robustness
Hunt, Andrew; Villegas, Andrés M. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585895
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Interval based composite indicators
Drago, Carlo - 2017
robustness of the results obtained and in particular of the rankings and the conclusions obtained from the analysis it is usually …
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Robustness of VSL values from contingent valuation surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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Identification in search models with social information
Lomys, Niccolò; Tarantino, Emanuele - 2023
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When is trust robust?
Anderlini, Luca; Samuelson, Larry; Terlizzese, Daniele - 2024
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Is disaster risk reduction spending driven by the occurrence of natural disasters? : evidence from Peru
Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014
index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It … vulnerability is a main determinant of the distribution of prevention spending but conditioned on being affected by climatological …
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Assessing the effects of eclimate and socioeconomic factors on vulnerability to vector-borne diseases in Latin America
García Ayala, Rodrigo; Estrugo, Andrés - 2014
, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …
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