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Few attempts have been made to study entrepreneurs' social networks in local communities. This study empirically explores the relationships between self-employed workers' involvement in local communities and their earnings. Examining whether their weak ties with community members and strong ties...
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This paper, using individual data from Japan, explores how the circumstances of where a person resides is related to the degree of their investment in social capital. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found: (1) Not only is the rate...
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The article is devoted to the study of such form of individuals' associations at their residence, as a territorial public self-government, which is one of the sources of social capital formation. On the basis of the data from the "Kirov City" municipality the author presented the impact of...
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empowerment, democratization and increased civil participation levels. …
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With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …
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to deft fingers; yet significant gender bias exists. The job is mainly done by weaker economic class in the country who …
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Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted … been challenged by more recent accounts, which have argued that gender differences in altruistic behaviour may be a … peculiarity of student samples and may not extend to other groups. Here we study gender differences in altruistic behaviour and …
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Gender differences in human behaviour have attracted generations of social scientists, who have explored whether males … others. Yet, little is known about gender differences in the equity-efficiency trade-off. It has been suggested that females … opportunity to fill this gap. To this end, I analyse gender differences on a large dataset including all N=5,056 TOG decisions …
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based on race, gender and other characteristics. `Sterilized interventions' along a single identity dimension are impossible …
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known about whether there are gender differences in cooperative behavior. Previous evidence is mixed and inconclusive. Here …
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