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find that gender discriminatory values negatively affect the trust level of both men and women, while actual conditions on … gender equality, measured by labor and educational attainments and political participation, are not a significant determinant … of social trust. Furthermore, fairness towards women is an important factor of social trust in countries where gender …
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. This paper empirically investigates whether gender equality – fairness between men and women – increases social trust by … analyzing a global sample from the World Values Survey. The findings show that gender discriminatory values negatively affect … significant determinant. These results indicate that values regarding gender equality (fair values) are arguably more important to …
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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on...
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Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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Social, or 'generalized', trust refers to beliefs that people hold about how other people in society will in general act towards them. Can people in general be trusted? Or must one be careful in dealing with people? Research on the antecedents of social trust has typically relied on...
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