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Social capital and health : evidence that ancestral trust promotes health among children of immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2014
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437064
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Social Capital and Health : Evidence that Ancestral Trust Promotes Health Among Children of Immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2016
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self‐assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141006
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The moldable young : how institutions impact social trust
Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016
Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …
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Trust drives internet use
Ljunge, Martin - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second … generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on … internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to all media, as individuals with high trust are shown to consume less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680826
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Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust
Ljunge, Martin - 2013
This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206754
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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524858
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Adolescent Well-being and Life Satisfaction : impact of Digital Technology Usage
Mihajlović, Iris; Djevojić, Cvijeta; Stanković, Marino - In: Business systems research : a system view accross … 14 (2023) 2, pp. 124-144
Background: Digital technologies have significantly changed the way adolescents perceive the world around them. The perception of the social environment is crucial for their well-being and health. Objectives: This paper aims to evaluate the relationship between the perceived life circumstances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527261
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A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures
Jackson, Matthew O. - 2019
I provide a typology of social capital, breaking it down into seven more fundamental forms of capital: information capital, brokerage capital, coordination and leadership capital, bridging capital, favor capital, reputation capital, and community capital. I discuss how most of these forms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900616
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The hidden curriculum and social preferences
Ito, Takahiro; Kubota, Kohei; Ōtake, Fumio - 2015
This paper examines the effects of school curricula on subsequent preference formation. The estimation results, using Japanese data, show that the actual curriculum at public elementary schools varies widely from area to area and is associated with preference formation. Specifically, pupils who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407585
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Convergence of cultural traits with time-varying self-confidence in the Panebianco (2014) model : a corrigendum
Panebianco, Fabrizio; Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2017
We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756147