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Aghion, Philippe - 2010

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation, while regulation in turn discourages social capital...

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Financial Integration within EU Countries : The Role of Institutions, Confidence and Trust

Ekinci, Mehmet Fatih - 2010

integration among European regions. We find regions, where the level of confidence and trust is high, are more financially …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759795

Social Capital, Trust and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth

Hamilton, Kirk - 2016

We combine theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given what we have learned in the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust could be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984136

How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143170

Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150644

Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...

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What is Social Capital? the Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Glaeser, Edward L.; Laibson, David; Scheinkman, José; … - 2021

Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and trustworthiness rise with social connection; differences in race and nationality reduce the level of trustworthiness. Certain individuals appear to be persistently more...

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Innovation and Top Income Inequality

Aghion, Philippe - 2015

innovativeness and top income inequality in the United States over the past decades. Two distinct instrumentation strategies suggest … that this correlation (partly) reflects a causality from innovativeness to top income inequality, and the effect is … increase other measures of inequality which do not focus on top incomes. Next, we show that the positive effects of innovation …

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Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health

Deaton, Angus - 2021

What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health … inequality and relate each of them to the literature on the inequality in income. I propose a model in which each individual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220524

How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper takes a different tack in addressing one of the fundamental questions in economics: what are the factors that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent literature, wage levels have been used to estimate the...

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