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Does war enhance or undermine other-regarding preferences and trust?

Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2024

Our study investigates how the devastating 2020-2022 Tigray War has affected the social preferences, reciprocity norms, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business groups. We rely on field experimental data with standardized incentivized...

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E-participation : social capital and the Internet

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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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

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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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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

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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … pillar is internalised norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the …

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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the …

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Civility and trust in social media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...

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Asymmetric information in a search model with social contacts

Stupnytska, Yuliia - 2015

In this paper, the search model is proposed, in which homogeneous firms are uncertain about the job seekers' number of friends, who can help them in the job search (social capital). All workers have the same productivity and differ only in the social capital. A firm offers a take-it-or-leave-it...

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