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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295566
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Between-group contests over group-specific public goods with within-group fragmentation
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between production and contestation. There is perfect coordination within sub-groups, but sub-groups cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704216
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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia
Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021
This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We … use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and … that measure trust. We nd that the organized sport policy improves institutional trust by about 4%. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516606
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252455
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240022
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State history, intergenerational transmission and institutional trust in Africa
Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2018
-colonial state show significantly higher levels of trust in current day institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011935959
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What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian; … - 2020 - Revised version
of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390078
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Voter preferences, electoral promises, and the composition of public spending
Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2020
. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount … win elections in settings with low trust and high impatience. An original survey of individual-level preferences for … model-derived hypotheses. Respondents reporting low trust in politician promises are more likely to prefer transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256493