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Social Capital in the creation of Human Capital and Economic Growth: A Productive Consumption Approach
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and reciprocity, which underpin cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits, and creates the base for economic prosperity. This study deals with the formation of social...
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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
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Spending or saving? Female empowerment and financial decisions in a matrilineal society
Rink, Ute; Barros, Laura - 2019
traditionally the household financial managers. This culture was strongly altered by the British in the mid-19th century through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118334
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Racism and trust in Europe
Bonick, Matthew - 2021
I study the impact of racism on trust in Europe. To operationalize trust and racism, I use individual level responses from the European Social and World Value Surveys. The results of the multivariate analysis indicate, individuals who possess a self-reported racist attitude are less likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588485
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Racism and trust in Europe
Bonick, Matthew - 2021
I study the impact of racism on trust in Europe. To operationalize trust and racism, I use individual level responses from the European Social and World Value Surveys. The results of the multivariate analysis indicate, individuals who possess a self-reported racist attitude are less likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584775
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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580542
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Learning from Leipzig? Regional Development and Socio-cultural Transition
Bunzel, Dirk; Kelemen, Mihaela - In: Review of Economics & Finance 1 (2011) June, pp. 52-62
to reflect the corresponding ?software?: regional culture! …
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Cultural Additivity Mechanism
Khuc, Van Quy - 2023
Vietnamese scientists. CA in Vietnamese means “cultural additive”, a mechanism whereby people of a given culture are willing to … incorporate into their culture the values and norms from other systems of beliefs that might or might not logically contradict …, and Confucianism), which makes Vietnam’s traditional culture. The second one is “A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome …
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How is Culture paving the path for Women's Rights?
Dutta, Nabamita - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 1778-1793
In an emerging literature, informal institutions or culture has been defined based on four important traits - TRUST … culture is a determinant of women's rights. …
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Culture, caution, and trust
Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 15-23
Trust is an important determinant of economic development. Understanding its origins is therefore critical. We develop a principal-agent model with heterogeneous players to determine the aggregate amount of trustworthiness and trust in a society. People are distributed according to their...
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