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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2015
economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235044
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Democracy or videocracy? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the Italian political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025249
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773922
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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?
Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 621-641
types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique data set collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. Copyright Springer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010865438
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25
This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049787
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189013
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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?
Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112406
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Who trusts Berlusconi? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643453
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Il capitale sociale nelle regioni italiane: un’analisi comparata
Sabatini, Fabio - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 99 (2009) 2, pp. 167-220
Drawing on survey data, this study carries out an assessment of the Italian regions’ endowments of social capital and of its relationship with well-being and the quality of development. The contribution of the paper to the literature is threefold: first, we advance a framework for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575257