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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...

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Mitigating life challenges to subjective well-being through civic engagement : insights from a global perspective

Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024

This paper investigates the role of civic engagement, an important form of social capital from the supply side, in buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health-on individual subjective well-being, specifically in terms of...

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Backs to the wall : strategies of cluster firms at the beginning of the global economic crisis of 2008

Fuchs, Stefan; Wrobel, Martin - In: Homo oeconomicus 32 (2015) 3/4, pp. 427-449

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How much violence does football hooliganism cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and cross-sectional variation in crime register data, comparing the number of … holidays. Our main finding shows that violent crime increases by 21.5 percent on a match day. In total, professional football …

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Family ties and political participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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Institutions, culture, and open source

Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas - 2010

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

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Trust and economic growth

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Schaik, Ton … - 2002

Economists increasingly pay attention to social capital as an important determinant of macroeconomic growth performance. At the same time, there is discussion regarding the robustness of the results of empirical growth studies. In a seminal paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of...

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Social Trust and Central-Bank Independence

Berggren, Niclas - 2013

Central banks have been made more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

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Social Trust and the Growth of Schooling

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2007

The paper develops a simple model to exemplify how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering transaction costs associated with employing educated individuals. In a sample of 52 countries, the paper thereafter provides empirical evidence that trust has led to faster...

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