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Trust and disintermediation : evidence from an online freelance marketplace
Gu, Yuan; Zhu, Feng - 2018
As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to facilitate matching and transactions, it faces an increased risk of disintermediation: with sufficient trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary's fees. We investigate the relationship...
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393654
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Self-selection, socialization, and risk perception : an empirical study
Weisenfeld-Schenk, Ursula; Ott, Ingrid - 2009
We analyze students' knowledge and risk perception of four technologies. The aim is to find out whether there is a …, advanced students perceive lower risks than beginners, and students in a technical study area perceive lower risks than … students in a non-technical area. Factor analyses show that common dimensions of risk are the technological areas and not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003878216
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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Online networks and subjective well-being
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results about the effect of social networking sites (SNS) use on individual welfare. We use a representative sample of the Italian population to investigate how actual and virtual networks of social...
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015
We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the...
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Trust and privacy : how trust affects individuals' willingness to disclose personal information
Heldman, Christina; Enste, Dominik - 2018
Even though people regularly express concern about sharing personal information online and fear a loss of privacy, their behavior seldom matches their opinions - A phenomenon called Privacy Paradox and researched for over 20 years. Several influencing factors have been identified. A central one...
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Assessing technologies : global patterns of trust and distrust ; report on one session at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology ; Yokohama, Japan, July 13 - 19, 2014
Moniz, A. Brandão - 2015
Technology assessment (TA) had never been treated as a relevant topic within the International Sociological Association (ISA) before. The first steps towards establishing this association were taken in 1948, at the initiative of the Social Science Department of UNESCO. Its formal foundation was...
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2013
Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222317