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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312487
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230901
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The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Per Capita Income
Dobler, Constanze - 2010
Despite the many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141261
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Chapter 2. Trust, Growth, and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that … explain the influence of trust on economic performance and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025609
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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence
Balan, David J.; Knack, Stephen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 457-475
In this paper we analyze the relationship between the correlation between morality and human capital (“ability”) on the one hand and aggregate economic performance on the other. Morality is defined as an aversion to consuming goods obtained through appropriative rather than productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052855
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African Development, Partnership and Rationality Challenge : An Exposition
Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa's economy is the least developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074888
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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income
Dobler, Constanze - 2009
Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958864
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development : A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059803