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Social capital is often represented by generalized trust - the degree to which one trusts "most (unknown) people". It … particularized trust, which represents our mutual confidence in individuals close to us, for example, family members and friends … trust types. Our results advocate in favour of a third, community determined type of trust. This additional trust dimension …
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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generalised social capital, which is usually approximated by generalised trust, there is one dimension of civic engagement and one … generalized trust. The results of the non-parametric model reveal that Protestantism and education are good benchmarks to classify … trust on an individual level. Based on these findings we argue for the necessity of policies with a regional focus that take …
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We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
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parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …
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social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …
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This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
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We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...
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We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department common room). We explore academics’ and postgraduate students’ behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a disorder condition (messy environment). We find...
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We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...
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