----- SOCIAL_CAPITAL.DTA

This data set contains measures of social capital commonly used in the literature.

They refer to Italian provinces or municipalities and come from different sources.

For a precise description of how each variable is measured, see the data sources
quoted below or Nannicini et al. (2013).

----- VARIABLES AND SOURCES

(a) Municipality, province, and region identifiers

reg_code        Region code
id_city_istat   City code (103 provinces)
acr_province    Province acronym (103)
prov_code       Province code (103)
city_name       City name

(b) Variables that vary at the municipality level 

Source: ISTAT.

nonprof_ass     N. of non profit organizations
nonprof_empl    N. of employees in non profit organizations

(c) Variables that vary at the province level

Source: Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales (2004).

donation        Blood donations
divorce         Turnout in the referendum on divorce (1974)

Source: Cartocci (2000).

eps_registered  N. of people registered with EPS / 1,000 people (1999)
eps_assoc       N. of EPS associations/1,000 people (1999)
coni_registered N. of people registered with CONI / 1,000 people (1999)
coni_assoc      N. of CONI associations/1,000 people (1999)
daily_newsp     N. of non-sport daily newspapers sold/1,000 people (2001)

Source: World Values Survey (also used in Tabellini, 2009).

tolerance       Answer to 'tolerance' question in the WVS
trust           Answer to 'trust' question in the WVS

----- REFERENCES

- Cartocci, Roberto (2007). Mappe del tesoro. Bologna: il Mulino.

- Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales (2004). “The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development,” 
  American Economic Review, 94, 526–556.

- Nannicini, Tommaso, Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini, and Ugo Troiano (2013). "Social Capital and Political Accountability," 
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5, 222-250.

- Tabellini, Guido (2009). “Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe,” 
  Journal of the European Economic Association, 6, 255–294.