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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221209
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226751
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Social capital and the spread of COVID-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228562
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19: insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269721
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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities
Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023
Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013536201
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The Legacy of Surveillance : An Explanation for Social Capital Erosion and the Persistent Economic Disparity between East and West Germany
Jacob, Marcus - 2010
This paper presents an exemplary case of social capital destruction through state action. We investigate the patterns of economic backwardness in East Germany and put forward a formal model and empirical evidence in favor of an intuitive yet novel conjecture: the differences in the scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147739
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The internet and the commitment of volunteers : empirical evidence for the Red Cross
Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 45 (2016) 5, pp. 1013-1030
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591925
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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 individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269266
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, 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 individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601034
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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 individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307324