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Bénabou, Roland - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust

Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2021

Using a large sample of 1,120 twins, we estimated the heritability of trust using four distinct measures of trust … – domain-specific political trust, general self-reported trust, and incentivized behavioral trust and trustworthiness. Our … results highlight the importance of measuring trust in a context because its heritability differs substantially across the …

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

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Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Grimes, Arthur L. - 2011

We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board proceeds to election,...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital : Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth : Evidence from Europe

Akcomak, Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2021

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions...

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Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards : Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born

Roskruge, Matthew - 2016

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...

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Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy

Sgroi, Daniel; Redoano, Michela; Liberini, Federica; … - 2021

background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …, contributed 15% more in a public goods game, displayed greater "social capital" such as trust in the government and more …

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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German...

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