In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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1. War and Social Attitudes - Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena 
2. The conditions of socioeconomic development exploring the legitimacy of social norms, trust, and corruption in Chile and Argentina - M?guez, Daniel; Dewey, Mat?as
3. The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital - Jens Ruhose; Stephan L. Thomsen; Insa Weilage
4. Local constraints and knowledge transfer in the formation and development of cooperatives: Catalonia, 1860?1939
   Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo; Mar?a Dolores A??n-Hig?n; Alfonso D?ez-Minguela; Jos? Miguel Lana-Berasain 
5. Gender norms and intimate partner violence Libertad Gonz?lez Luna; N?ria Rodr?guez-Planas 
6. Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State - Arnaud Chevalier; Benjamin Elsner; Andreas Lichter; Nico Pestel 
7. Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration - Ruxanda Berlinschi; Jan Fidrmuc
8. Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools - Alberto Alesina; Michela Carlana; Eliana La Ferrara; Paolo Pinotti 
9. Anti-social Behavior in Groups - Michal Bauer; Jana Cahlikova; Dagmara Celik Katreniak; Julie Chytilova;
   Lubomir Cingl; Tomas Zelinsky
10. Caste, Informal Social Networks and Varietal Turnover - Veettil, P.C.; Devi, A.; Gupta, I.

1. War and Social Attitudes - Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena
We study the long-run effects of con ict on social attitudes, with World War
II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has
relied on self- reported measures of victimization, which are prone to
endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate
established findings linking victimization to political participation, civic
engagement, optimism, and trust. Those findings are reversed, however, when
tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on
historical reference material. Thus, we urge caution when interpreting
survey- based results from this literature as causal.
JEL: D74 N44 P20
Keywords: conflict,social attitudes,World War II
Date: 2018
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:279&r=soc

2. The conditions of socioeconomic development exploring the legitimacy of social norms, trust, and corruption in Chile and Argentina - M?guez, Daniel; Dewey, Mat?as
A growing body of research, based on large-scale international comparisons,
has associated socioeconomic development with several intervening factors,
such as levels of respect for social norms, interpersonal trust, degrees of
confidence in public institutions, or incidence of corruption in
governmental bodies. The paper contributes to this body of scholarship by
comparing the differing socioeconomic development experienced by Chile and
Argentina between 1983 and 2013. Specifically, the paper inquires whether
the greater socioeconomic development experienced by Chile was actually
related to greater legitimacy of the law, higher levels of trust in public
institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater
interpersonal trust. The results of our exploration do not completely
confirm or disprove this thesis. Instead, they reveal not only the need for
a nuanced approach to how these factors relate to socioeconomic progress but
also for their forms of association to be considered in the context of
politically, socially, and economically fluctuating conditions.
Keywords: Argentina,Chile,corruption,development,fiscal policy,norms,trust,Argentinien,Entwick
lung,Korruption,Normen,Steuerpolitik,V
ertrauen
Date: 2018
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:mpifgd:189&r=soc

3. The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital - Jens Ruhose; Stephan L. Thomsen; Insa Weilage
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework
to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines
kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and
sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the effect of
work-related training, which represents the largest portion of adult
education in OECD countries, on individual social capital. Training
increases participation in civic, political, and cultural activities while
not crowding out social participation. Results are robust against a variety
of potentially confounding explanations. These findings imply positive
externalities from work-related training over and above the well documented
labor market effects.
JEL: J24 I21 M53
Keywords: non-pecuniary returns, social capital, work-related training,
matched difference-in-differences approach, entropy balancing
Date: 2018
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_7268&r=soc

4. Local constraints and knowledge transfer in the formation and development of cooperatives: Catalonia, 1860?1939
Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Mar?a Dolores A??n-Hig?n (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Alfonso D?ez-Minguela (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Jos? Miguel Lana-Berasain (Universidad P?blica de Navarra, Spain)
Different factors have been proposed to explain why in some regions there is
a greater tendency to form cooperatives. Although the debate remains open,
the literature offers several interpretations. On the one hand, some studies
have stressed the role played by human capital, market access and
institutions, among other factors, while other studies have pointed to path
dependence, that is to say, the development of social capital and trust
within a society in the past encourages cooperation. Disentangling both
effects is far from trivial and requires a careful analysis. In this study,
we look at the spread of cooperativism within Catalonia from 1860 to 1939.
Catalonia was not just the leading industrial region in Spain, but also
where cooperatives first emerged and had a greater presence. In line with
the existing evidence, we find that cooperativism spread from coastal
municipalities to the hinterland. In this regard, it appears that literacy
and accessibility facilitated this process. Besides, social capital cannot
be discarded as a relevant factor, especially in rural contexts.
JEL: P13 Z13 N9 N3
Keywords: Cooperatives, Human Capital, Social Capital, Knowledge Transfer,
Catalonia
Date: 2018?11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ahe:dtaehe:1808&r=soc

5. Gender norms and intimate partner violence - Libertad Gonz?lez Luna; N?ria Rodr?guez-Planas
We study the effect of social gender norms on the incidence of domestic
violence. We use data for 28 European countries from the 2012 European
survey on violence against women, and focus on first and second generation
immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country of residence
fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics and other
source-country variables, higher gender equality in the country of ancestry
is significantly associated with a lower risk of victimization in the host
country. This suggests that gender norms may play an important role in
explaining the incidence of intimate partner violence.
JEL: I1 J6 D1
Keywords: domestic violence, gender, social norms, immigrants,
epidemiological approach
Date: 2018?10
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:upf:upfgen:1620&r=soc

6. Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State - Arnaud Chevalier; Benjamin Elsner; Andreas Lichter; Nico Pestel
This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. We
exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany
after WWII. These migrants were poorer than the local population but had
full voting rights and were eligible for social welfare. We show that cities
responded to this shock with selective tax raises and shifts in spending.
Voting data suggests that these changes were partly driven by the
immigrants? political in?uence. We further document a strong persistence of
the effect. The initial migration shock changed the preferences for
redistribution of the following generations.
Date: 2018
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp994&r=soc

7. Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration Ruxanda Berlinschi; Jan Fidrmuc
This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits
play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and
conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views).
Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally
(average world views and their diversity). The model shows that
self-selection of inter-regional migrants on world views is non-monotonic if
one region is more diverse than the other, and it weakens with economic gaps
between regions. This non-monotonicity can lead to a dichotomy of outcomes:
culturally diverse regions become even more diverse because of migration,
while culturally homogeneous regions become even more homogeneous.
Consequently, Tieboutian sorting (people moving to the region in which world
views are closer to theirs) only holds when regions have similar wages and
diversity of world views.
JEL: A13 F22 J61 Z10
Keywords: migration, self-selection, culture, diversity, Tiebout model
Date: 2018
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_7294&r=soc

8. Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools - Alberto Alesina (Department of Economics, Harvard University, IGIER
Bocconi, NBER and CEPR); Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School and IZA);
Eliana La Ferrara (Department of Economics, IGIER and LEAP, Bocconi
University); Paolo Pinotti (Department of Social and Political Sciences at
Bocconi University, DONDENA, and Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti)
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their
behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading
immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades
to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance on
standardized, blindly-graded tests. We then relate differences in grading to
teachers' stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Association Test (IAT).
We find that math teachers with stronger stereotypes give lower grades to
immigrants compared to natives with the same performance. Literature
teachers do not differentially grade immigrants based on their own
stereotypes. Finally, we share teachers' own IAT score with them,
randomizing the timing of disclosure around the date on which they assign
term grades. All teachers informed of their stereotypes before term grading
increase grades assigned to immigrants. Revealing stereotypes may be a
powerful intervention to decrease discrimination, but it may also induce a
reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way.
JEL: I24 J15
Keywords: immigrants, teachers, implicit stereotypes, IAT, bias in grading
Date: 2018?11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:crm:wpaper:1817&r=soc

9. Anti-social Behavior in Groups - Michal Bauer; Jana Cahlikova; Dagmara Celik Katreniak; Julie Chytilova;
Lubomir Cingl; Tomas Zelinsky
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation
that decisionmaking in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence
of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment
implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a
group with randomly assigned peers increases the prevalence of anti-social
behavior that reduces everyone?s payoff but which improves the relative
position of own group. The effects are driven by the influence of a group
context on individual behavior, rather than by group deliberation. The
observed patterns are strikingly similar on both continents.
JEL: C92 C93 D01 D64 D74 D91
Keywords: antisocial behavior; aggressive competitiveness; group
membership; group decision-making; group conflict;
Date: 2018?11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cer:papers:wp632&r=soc

10. Caste, Informal Social Networks and Varietal Turnover - Veettil, P.C.; Devi, A.; Gupta, I.
The potential gain from the agricultural technologies can be realized only
if it is adopted and disseminated in a short period of time. There are many
factors which affect the rate of adoption and diffusion of technologies,
both at macro and micro level. Social learning and social networks play a
critical role in adoption of technologies as the adoption decisions of a
farmer may be influenced by the others in his social network. Caste is a key
factor which influences the decisions of people in Indian society. This
study focuses on such caste based social networks and examines the role of
caste based social networks and other farm level determinants on the
varietal turnover of rice. Within caste social networks found to act as a
barrier for faster replacement of varieties. Identifying and programming
with caste based local leadership as nodes of varietal dissemination may be
an effective extension strategy. Acknowledgement : We acknowledge funding
support for this research provided by the Global Futures and Strategic
Foresight (GFSF) project and CGIAR Research Program on Policies,
Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by IFPRI. The contents and opinions
expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the
views of IRRI, PIM, IFPRI, and CGIAR. The usual disclaimer applies.
Keywords: Labor and Human Capital
Date: 2018?07
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iaae18:277172&r=soc

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