Data from GSZ (2016): Subsample
gsz_south.RdData from Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales (2016); southern Italian cities
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The authors revisit Putnam, Leonardi, and Nanetti (1992)’s celebrated conjecture that Italian cities that achieved self-government in the Middle Ages have higher modern-day levels of social capital. More specifically, they study the effects of free city-state status on social capital as measured by the number of nonprofit organizations and organ donations per capita, and a measure of whether students cheat in mathematics. We focus on the first outcome, the number of nonprofit organizations.
This dataset is a subsample of southern Italian cities, which is used as a zero-first-stage sample.