作者：Guiso, L; Sapienza, P; Zingales, L
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Sassari; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Northwestern University
摘要：Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and economic attitudes, controlling for country-fixed effects. We study several economic attitudes toward cooperation, the government, ...
作者：Miguel, E
作者单位：Princeton University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：Routledge, BR; von Amsberg, J
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; The World Bank
摘要：We define and characterize social capital in a simple growth model. We capture social capital in a model where individuals in a community maximize their lifetime gains to trade. Each trade between two members of a community has the structure of the prisoners' dilemma. Trades are repeated indefinitely, but not necessarily each period. Social capital is defined as the social structure which facilitates cooperative trade as an equilibrium. The trading model is incorporated into a growth model to ...
