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The Determinants of Trust
Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
the role of social trust. This is in turn defined as the confidence people have that strangers, i.e. fellow citizens on … substantial literature has found that social trust is associated with a set of different macroeconomic outcomes: economic growth …-being are all influenced by the propensity of people within any nation to trust each other. The questions are therefore where …
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Can Trust Explain Social Capital Effect on Property Rights and Growth?
Hall, Stephen G; Ahmad, Mahyudin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
political institutions) towards economic growth. Utilizing the World Value Survey (WVS)’s trust variable that has often been … studies, this study shows that WVS’ trust data suffer severe missing observation problem and the panel fixed effect estimation … of social capital beyond the WVS trust indicator. The results also indicate that political institutions effect on growth …
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Mitigating the shadow of conflict: the role of social and human capital for the reduction of conflicts
Schmidt, Dorothee - 2007
One possible solution to mitigate the negative influences of conflict which has been proposed in the literature is to subject the relevant parties to education. Education can take two forms: increasing an individual's human capital on the one hand, increasing her social capital on the other...
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Does social capital matter? : a study of hit-and-run in US counties
Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
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Does social capital matter? : a study of hit-and-run in US counties
Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173233
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Economic freedom and academic freedom across nations
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2024
Academic freedom is a cornerstone of modern academic life. It is not only implied by basic liberal principles but also contributes to scientific progress and economic growth. It is therefore important to better understand what affects how free scholarly pursuits are, and to that end, we ask...
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Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Economic Growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2009
In this paper we develop a formal model of economic growth and two types of social capital. Following extant literature, we model social capital as participation in two types of social networks: first, closed networks of family and friends, and, second, open networks that bridge different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159914
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A smooth coefficient quantile regression approach to the social capital–economic growth nexus
Deng, Wen-Shuenn; Lin, Yi-Chen; Gong, Jinguo - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 2, pp. 185-197
This analysis assesses the role of social capital in generating heterogeneity in growth processes across U.S. counties by estimating growth regressions, using the novel semiparametric smooth coefficient quantile regression method in which parameters are unspecified functions of a measure of...
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Social capital literature and Durlauf´s criticism
Figueiredo, Lízia - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2011
based on the idea that social capital is ‘norms, networks and trust’, although without a deep discussion about this choice …
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Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Economic Growth
Smulders, Sjak; Beugelsdijk, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
In this paper we develop a formal model of economic growth and two types of social capital. Following extant literature, we model social capital as participation in two types of social networks: first, closed networks of family and friends, and, second, open networks that bridge different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091261