Borderland resilience, willingness to help and trust–An empirical study of the French-German border area

Miriam Klein, Marcus Wiens and Frank Schultmann

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2022, vol. 99, issue C

Abstract: Border regions between different countries are of special interest in studying international relationships, which is a current topic in today’s globalized and interconnected world. To strengthen their disaster resilience, it is important for local decision-makers to understand the spontaneous willingness of the population to help affected people in their region. This article presents a novel framework based on Social Capital and Weiners’ Motivational Theory of Mutual Help to quantify peoples’ willingness to help (WTH) surveyed for the hypothetical case of a natural disaster. We compared the potential helping behavior between neighbored regions and neighbored countries in France and Germany, and also in the border area between the two countries. We found a significant correlation between trust and WTH in a neighboring region and identified determinants of WTH in a neighboring country. Implications for today’s world in terms of globalization and disaster response as the Covid-19 pandemic are discussed.

Keywords: Borderland; Social capital; Willingness to help; Empirical research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101898

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