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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake struck Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of … south-central Japan. The earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a … earthquake enhanced the investment in social capital through participation in community activity. The differences …

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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 95 (2016), pp. 143-164

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Social capital, human capital, and fertility

Coppier, Raffaella; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 632-650

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Social capital, human capital and fertility

Coppier, Raffaella; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...

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Dynamics of social trust and human capital in the learning process : the case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968-2005

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 72 (2009) 1, pp. 377-389

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Regulation and distrust

Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 125 (2010) 3, pp. 1015-1049

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Social attitudes and economic development : an epidemiological approach

Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

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Social attitudes and economic development : an epidemiological approach

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2007

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Comparison of social trust's effect on suicide ideation between urban and non-urban areas : the case of Japanese adults in 2006

Yamamura, Eiji - 2015

An increasing number of studies have addressed the determinants of suicide. Social capital is a key factor in preventing suicide. However, little is known about the experience of suicide ideation using subjective values. From the viewpoint of suicide prevention, it is worth examining how people...

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Inherited trust and growth: comment

Müller, Daniel; Torgler, Benno; Uslaner, Eric M. - 2012

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