Social trust and human capital formation

Economics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 158-160

  Papagapitos, Agapitos ^a   Riley, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Human capital; Social trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449087233     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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