In this issue we feature 11 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

1. Mobile internet and the rise of political tribalism in Europe By Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea
2. Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspective By Domenico Moramarco; Flaviana Palmisano
3. Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms By Eugen Dimant; Michele Gelfand; Anna Hochleitner; Silvia Sonderegger
4. News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions By David Hirshleifer; Lin Peng; Qiguang Wang
5. Do different people report the same social norms? By Geoffrey Castillo; Lawrence Choo; Veronika Grimm
6. Climate change concerns and information spillovers from socially-connected friends By Mayer, Maximilian
7. Follow the leader: community-based health insurance in West Africa By Rute M. Caeiro; Alexander Coutts; Teresa Molina-Millan; Pedro C. Vicente
8. Social networks and mental health: the experience of Cape-Verdean migrants in Portugal By Catia Batista; Rita Neves
9. Trust and Public Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic By Mausumi Das; Ajit Mishra
10. .Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities By Geoffrey Castillo; Lawrence Choo; Veronika Grimm
11. Accounting for the long-term stability of the welfare-state regimes in a model with distributive preferences and social norms By Gilles Le Garrec

1. Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities
   Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm
   from HAL (2022)
   Keywords: Dishonesty,Group decisions,Communication,Social norms
   Created/Revised: 2022-06-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-17 
2. Accounting for the long-term stability of the welfare-state regimes in a model with distributive preferences and social norms
   Gilles Le Garrec
   from HAL (2023)
   Keywords: Redistribution, voting behavior, fairness, endogenous preferences
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-31 
3. Do different people report the same social norms?
   Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm
   from HAL (2022)
   Keywords: social norms,norm elicitation,laboratory experiment,methodology,ultimatum game
   Created/Revised: 2022-07-08 Added/Modified: 2022-12-27 
4. Mobile internet and the rise of political tribalism in Europe
   Marco Manacorda, Guido Tabellini and Andrea Tesei
   from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2022)
   Keywords: populism; communitarianism; Europe; mobile internet
   JEL-codes: D72; D91; L86
   Created/Revised: 2022-10-14 Added/Modified: 2023-01-25 
5. Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms
   Eugen Dimant, Michele Gelfand, Anna Hochleitner and Silvia Sonderegger
   from CESifo (2023)
   Keywords: cooperation, descriptive norms, variance, peer effects
   JEL-codes: C91; D01
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-28 
6. Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspective
   Domenico Moramarco and Flaviana Palmisano
   from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2023)
   Keywords: Trust, Institutions, Inequality, Income inequality, Political attitudes
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-29 
7. Climate change concerns and information spillovers from socially-connected friends
   Maximilian Mayer
   from Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) (2023)
   Keywords: beliefs,climate change,information spillovers,social networks
   JEL-codes: D01; D62; D64; D8; Q5
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-02-02 
8. News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions
   David Hirshleifer, Lin Peng and Qiguang Wang
   from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
   JEL-codes: G11; G12; G14; G4; G41
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-25 
9. Trust and Public Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic
   Mausumi Das and Ajit Mishra
   from Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics (2023)
   Created/Revised: 2023-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-02-03 
10. Social networks and mental health: the experience of Cape-Verdean migrants in Portugal
    Catia Batista and Rita Neves
    from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA (2022)
    Keywords: International migration, Immigration, Mental health, Social networks, Gender, Cape-Verde, Portugal
    Created/Revised: 2022-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-18 
11. Follow the leader: community-based health insurance in West Africa
    Rute M. Caeiro, Alexander Coutts, Teresa Molina-Millan and Pedro C. Vicente
    from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA (2022)
    Keywords: Health insurance, Social networks, Africa
    JEL-codes: D83; I13; O12
    Created/Revised: 2022-01-01 Added/Modified: 2023-01-18 

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