In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital:

1. Teaching Practices and Social Capital - Yann Algan; Pierre Cahuc; Andrei Shleifer

2. Generating Business Referrals for SMEs: The Contingent Value of CEOs' Social Capital - Barthelemy Chollet; Mickaël Géraudel; Caroline Mothe

3. Social and Moral Norms in Allocation Choices in the Laboratory - Charness, Gary; Schram, Arthur

4. Giving in France: A Philanthropic Renewal after Decades of Distrust - Arthur Gautier; Anne-Claire Pache; Valérie Mossel

5. Who gets the Top Jobs? The role of family background and networks in recent graduates' access to high status professions - Lindsey Macmillan; Claire Tyler; Anna Vignoles

6. Becoming “We” instead of “I” : Identity management and incentives in the workplace - Jocelyn Donze; Trude Gunnes

7. Imagine Being a Nice Guy: A Note on Hypothetical vs. Incentivized Social Preferences - Christoph Bühren; Thorben C. Kundt

8. Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar - Vaillant, Julia; Nordman, Christophe Jalil

9. National Identity and Religious Diversity - Kenneth Harttgen; Matthias Opfinger

10. Collective Action, Heterogeneous Loyalties, and Path Dependence: Micro-Evidence from Senegal - Jean-Philippe Platteau; Tomasz Strzalecki

Edited by: Fabio Sabatini, Universita' la Sapienza

Issue date: 2013-12-15

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