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This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
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Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 … percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing …
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We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings. …
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This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the …
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This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second … generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on … internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to all media, as individuals with high trust are shown to consume less …
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for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
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paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
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Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …
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This study explores social capital and its relevance to bank risk taking across countries. Our empirical results show that the levels of bank risk taking are lower in countries with higher levels of social capital, and that the impact of social capital is mainly reflected by the reduced value of...
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs … - that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages …
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