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Rein in pandemic by pricing vaccine : does social trust matter?

Das, Upasak; Pal, Rupayan; Rathore, Udayan; Saha, Bibhas - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331054

Experimental Evidence on Social Trust and Responsiveness to COVID-19 Mitigation Policies

Wiedemann, Johannes; Goldstein, Daniel A. N. - 2021

Observational evidence suggests that social trust and the closely related concept of social capital play a critical role in compliance with government policy, particularly in regards to public responsiveness to measures intended to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. We use a survey...

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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia

Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021

This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and where policies are applied. We set up a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516606

Trust : a concept too many

Guinnane, Timothy - 2005

Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610585

The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308454

Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust

Ljunge, Martin - 2013

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206754

Do acquaintances and friends make us learn? : social capital and lifelong learning in Germany

Thum, Anna-Elisabeth; Bablavy, Miroslav - 2014

This paper examines the relationship between social capital and adult learning. We test this association empirically using measures of various types of social capital and adult learning based on the German Socioeconomic Panel. We use predetermined measures of social capital to exclude social...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380538

No man is an island : trust, trustworthiness, and social capital among Syrian refugees in Germany

El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021

We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … Syrian refugees tend to engage in bonding networks, whereas both staying longer in Germany and having a private home in … Germany coincide with increased engagement in bridging networks. Thus, residence in a refugee camp appears to be an important …

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Are happier people better citizens?

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635321

Border region attachment : an empirical study on regional social capital in the French-German border area

Wiens, Marcus; Klein, Miriam; Schultmann, Frank - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 68 (2022) 4, pp. 362-390

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