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, including political participation, civic engagement, and institutional and interpersonal trust. To address this question, we … crime reduces political participation, institutional and interpersonal trust and has mixed effects on civic engagement … organized group presence on political participation and trust are largely explained by disinvestment in social capital by those …
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While the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lives and livelihoods are well understood, we know little about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the...
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To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
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-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural … disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …
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This paper examines how the interaction of social trust and institutions, such as land administration, affects … mitigated in communes with higher level of trust. These results support the view that trust complements formal institutions. …
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fielded an in-person survey to nearly 3,000 urban youths, measuring various sociopolitical attitudes such as trust in … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … first ten years of life is associated with up to a 20 per cent decrease in reported interpersonal and political trust. We …
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' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …
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This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...
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There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a...
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Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...
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