In this issue we feature 11 current papers on the theme of social capital:

1. Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being.

Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi

2. Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk

3. Bowling for fascism: Social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33

Shanker Satyanath; Nico Voigtländer; Joachim Voth

4. Persistent Classmates: How Familiarity with Peers Protects from Disruptive School Transitions

Son Thierry Ly; Arnaud Riegert

5. Friends or Family? Revisiting the Effects of High School Popularity on Adult Earnings

Jason Fletcher

6. Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A.

7. Migrant Networks and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from Displaced Workers

Tommaso Colussi

8. Social Identity and Punishment.

Butler, Jerey V.; Conzo, Pierluigi; Leroch, Martin A.

9. A guided tour to (real-life) social network elicitation

Pablo Brañas-Garza; Ramón Cobo-Reyes; Natalia Jiménez; Giovanni Ponti

10. The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Yann Algan; Camille Hémet; David Laitin

11. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Matthew Lee; Julie Battilana

Edited by: Fabio Sabatini, Universita' la Sapienza

Issue date: 2013-07-20

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