Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26917 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2007,5
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
One possible solution to mitigate the negative influences of conflict which has been proposed in the literature is to subject the relevant parties to education. Education can take two forms: increasing an individual's human capital on the one hand, increasing her social capital on the other hand. Using a stylized model of a two-individual economy, we derive that increasing an individual's social capital will lead her to reduce her conflict effort, whereas increasing her human capital can induce her to increase her conflict effort. We then analyze which conditions need to be present to induce the individuals to invest into their social capital.
Subjects: 
Contests
conflict reduction
education
human capital
social capital
morality
JEL: 
D72
D74
I28
K42
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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