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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383582
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Social capital at the outburst of the economic crisis in Greece, 2008-2010
Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 79-86
Purpose - Social capital and its core components of social trust and associational activity are widely acknowledged as a core feature of strong and active civil societies that promote effective democratic governance and economic prosperity. Within this context the present study sets out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516805
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The Effects of School Size on Parental Involvement and Social Capital : Evidence from the ELS 2002
Jacob, Brian; Dee, Thomas S.; Ha, Wei - 2009
An increasingly prominent approach to school reform emphasizes the possible benefits of creating smaller schools. Proponents argue that small schools are more effective than large schools at promoting student achievement, in large part because they have positive effects on the engagement and...
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Social Capital at the Outburst of the Economic Crisis in Greece, 2008-2010
Daskalopoulou, Irene - 2016
Purpose – Social capital and its core components of social trust and associational activity are widely acknowledged as a core feature of strong and active civil societies that promote effective democratic governance and economic prosperity. Within this context the present study sets out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986824
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Social Capital and Supply Chain Relationships
Kang, Namho; Nemani, Alok; Raman, Kartik - 2023
We examine the effect of social capital on buyer-supplier relationships. We report evidence that firms make larger relationship-specific investments when their supply chain partners are headquartered in states with high social capital. This result is more pronounced in environments where supply...
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Meeting Some, Trusting All - How Group Interaction Improves Social Trust
Braesemann, Fabian; Stephany, Fabian - 2021
In every social transaction there is an element of trust. The degree to which we trust others, called generalized trust, is assumed to benefit from interaction with different social groups. In the trust literature, it is opposed by particularized trust, which represents our mutual confidence in...
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Social Capital and Individual Happiness in Europe.
Rodriguez-Pose, Andrés; von Berlepsch, Viola - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2012
This paper explores the relationship between social capital and happiness both in Europe as a whole, as well as in its four main geographical macro-regions – North, South, East and West – separately. We test the hypothesis of whether social capital, in its three-fold definition established...
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Influence of Social Capital of Community Associations on the Urban Development
Shagalov, I. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 22 (2014) 2, pp. 133-151
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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Social capital at the outburst of the economic crisis in Greece, 2008-2010
Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 79-86
Purpose - Social capital and its core components of social trust and associational activity are widely acknowledged as a core feature of strong and active civil societies that promote effective democratic governance and economic prosperity. Within this context the present study sets out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932771