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vulnerability reduced trust in government and respect for authority and increased preferences for redistribution. Yet information … reduces interpersonal trust. These information effects also map into policy preferences beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Our …
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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...
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paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
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OSS. Also, social capital in terms of interpersonal trust has a positive impact on the number of OSS developers as well as …
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social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …
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This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the …
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paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326961
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II - ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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This chapter surveys the recent economic literature on the relationships between globalization and cultural diversity. We first review the different channels through which international integration interacts with cultural diversity across individuals, communities, and nations. We then present...
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