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The consequences of persistent inequality on social capital : a municipal-level analysis of blood donation data

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Date
02/2017
Author
Oto-Peralías, Daniel
Romero-Ávila, Diego
Funder
Carnegie Trust
Grant ID
70433
Keywords
Persistent inequality
Land inequality
Culture
Social capital
Blood donation
H Social Sciences
HB Economic Theory
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Abstract
This letter advances the hypothesis that persistent inequality affects cultural traits and undermines social capital. We use blood donation data at the local level in Southern Spain to document that, indeed, persistent inequality –as measured by land inequality– negatively affects blood donation, which indicates that it harms social capital. This evidence sheds new light into the debates on the consequences of inequality and the determinants of culture.
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Oto-Peralías , D & Romero-Ávila , D 2017 , ' The consequences of persistent inequality on social capital : a municipal-level analysis of blood donation data ' , Economics Letters , vol. 151 , pp. 53-57 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.037
Publication
Economics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.037
ISSN
0165-1765
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.037
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Financial support by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness through grant ECO2012-35430 is gratefully acknowledged.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13786

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