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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703557
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124005
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach.
Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences Po - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008575207
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892187
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido - 2005
is measured by indicators of individual values and beliefs, such as trust and respect for others, and confidence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261295
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004
This paper 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642418
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven; Fafchamps, Marcel - EconWPA - 2004
This paper 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062449
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The Effect of Income on Trust: the Evidence from 2009 Crisis in Russia
Ananiev, Maxim; Guriev, Sergei - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
This paper draws on a natural experiment to identify the relationship between income and trust. We use a unique panel … instrumenting average regional income, we find that the effect of income on generalized social trust (the share of respondents … determinants of trust, we show that 10 percent decrease in income is associated with 5 percentage point decrease in trust. Given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273274
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Do natural disasters enhance societal trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research … social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country evidence of another important determinant of … trust - the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require (and provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283918