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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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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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Trust and social capital

Algan, Yann - In: For good measure : advancing research on well-being …, (pp. 283-320). 2018

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Diversity and trust : the role of shared values

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Klasing, Mariko - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 44 (2016) 3, pp. 522-540

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Trust and economic growth

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Schaik, Ton … - 2002

Economists increasingly pay attention to social capital as an important determinant of macroeconomic growth performance. At the same time, there is discussion regarding the robustness of the results of empirical growth studies. In a seminal paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of...

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