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Between-group contests over group-specific public goods with within-group fragmentation
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between production and contestation. There is perfect coordination within sub-groups, but sub-groups cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704216
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614103
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295566
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Between-Group Contests Over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between production and contestation. There is perfect coordination within sub-groups, but sub-groups cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950919
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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia
Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021
This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We … use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and … that measure trust. We nd that the organized sport policy improves institutional trust by about 4%. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516606
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252455
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240022
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State history, intergenerational transmission and institutional trust in Africa
Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2018
-colonial state show significantly higher levels of trust in current day institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011935959