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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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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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Are happier people better citizens?
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio … endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people trust others more, and importantly, help create more social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635321
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No man is an island : trust, trustworthiness, and social capital among Syrian refugees in Germany
El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021
We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement treatment conditions in which Syrian refugees play a trust game … show higher levels of trust and (un)conditional trustworthiness when they interact with a Syrian compared to when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424259
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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269090
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Migrants at School : Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159513
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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846006
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Utilitarian and ideological determinants of attitudes toward immigration : Germany before and after the "refugee crisis"
Welsch, Heinz - 2019
Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967243
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Adolescent Environment and Noncognitive Skills
Gong, Jie; Lu, Yi; Xie, Huihua - 2016
Human skills are formed throughout multiple stages over the life cycle. Different types of skills are manipulable at different ages. This paper investigates whether and how the adolescent environment affects individuals' noncognitive skills. We exploit the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148551
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Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital: evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...
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