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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...
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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...
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The transmission of continuous cultural traits in endogenous social networks
Hellmann, Tim; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2018
We study a model of transmission of continuous cultural traits across generations where children learn their cultural trait from their parents and their social environment modeled by a network. Parents can engage in the socialization process of their children by biasing links in the network in...
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Trust and Manipulation in Social Networks
Foerster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2014
neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145339
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Trust and manipulation in social networks
Förster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2014
neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357991
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Whom can you trust? : reputation and cooperation in networks
King, Maia - 2017
network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the … 'radius of trust': an endogenous network listing the potentially cooperative relationships between pairs of players in a … community. We identify two aspects of trust, which relate to the network structure in different ways. Where trust depends on the …
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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...
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You are who your friends are : an experiment on trust and homophily in friendship networks
Kataria, Mitesh; Winter, Fabian - 2013
, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252394
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Does Guanxi Matter to Nonfarm Employment?
Zhang, Xiaobo; Li, Guo - 2012
Chinese farmers rely increasingly on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. Previous studies identify human capital as a key factor in the selection of workers in the rural nonfarm sector, but these studies ignore the role of social networks, i.e., guanxi. Using data from a detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074376
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Education transmission and network formation
Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo Leone; Panebianco, … - 2021
We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or low-educated families. Children choose the intensity of their social activities while parents decide how much educational effort to exert. Using data on adolescents in the...
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