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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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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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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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Childhood sporting experience and charitable donations to disaster victims

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 5, pp. 1-12

victims of enormous disasters such as the Great East Japan Earthquake. …

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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...

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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients

Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017

We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...

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The effects of inequality, fragmentation, and social capital on collective action in a homogeneous society : analyzing responses to the 2005 Japan Census

Yamamura, Eiji - In: The journal of socio-economics 37 (2008) 5, pp. 2054-2058

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Formal and informal deterrents of crime in Japan : roles of police and social capital revisited

Yamamura, Eiji - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 4, pp. 611-621

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Effects of interactions among social capital, income and learning from experiences of natural disasters : a case study from Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - In: Regional studies 44 (2010) 8, pp. 1019-1032

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