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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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Social Capital at the Outburst of the Economic Crisis in Greece, 2008-2010

Daskalopoulou, Irene - 2016

Purpose – Social capital and its core components of social trust and associational activity are widely acknowledged as a core feature of strong and active civil societies that promote effective democratic governance and economic prosperity. Within this context the present study sets out to...

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The Effects of School Size on Parental Involvement and Social Capital : Evidence from the ELS 2002

Jacob, Brian; Dee, Thomas S.; Ha, Wei - 2009

An increasingly prominent approach to school reform emphasizes the possible benefits of creating smaller schools. Proponents argue that small schools are more effective than large schools at promoting student achievement, in large part because they have positive effects on the engagement and...

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Social Capital and Supply Chain Relationships

Kang, Namho; Nemani, Alok; Raman, Kartik - 2023

We examine the effect of social capital on buyer-supplier relationships. We report evidence that firms make larger relationship-specific investments when their supply chain partners are headquartered in states with high social capital. This result is more pronounced in environments where supply...

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Meeting Some, Trusting All - How Group Interaction Improves Social Trust

Braesemann, Fabian; Stephany, Fabian - 2021

In every social transaction there is an element of trust. The degree to which we trust others, called generalized trust, is assumed to benefit from interaction with different social groups. In the trust literature, it is opposed by particularized trust, which represents our mutual confidence in...

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Social capital at the outburst of the economic crisis in Greece, 2008-2010

Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 79-86

Purpose - Social capital and its core components of social trust and associational activity are widely acknowledged as a core feature of strong and active civil societies that promote effective democratic governance and economic prosperity. Within this context the present study sets out to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516805

Social capital at the outburst of the economic crisis in Greece, 2008-2010

Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 79-86

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Social capital and the family : evidence that strong family ties cultivate civic virtues

Ljunge, Martin - 2013

I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country...

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Civic capital and the vertical integration of service provision : evidence from Italy

Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2013

This paper studies whether civic capital acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions, looking at the degree of outsourcing to external suppliers of service provision in Italian firms. Our results show that, on average, firms tend to outsource more services where...

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