Free to Trust: Economic Freedom and Social Capital

By Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Trust and growth: a shaky relationship (2008, neutral): “Zak and Knack (2001), Alesina and La Ferrara (2002), Knack and Zak (2002) and Berggren and Jordahl (2006). 25 There seems to be no partial correlation between Investment-good price and Growth for 1990–2000. The same result is obtained if we instead use Investment share of GDP in the regressions. The”
Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties (2010, neutral): “…associated with economic growth (Knack and Keefer 1997; Quentin Grafton et al. 2004; Beugelsdijk and Schaik 2005), as well as with international trade, macroeconomic stability, political and civic involvement, crime prevention, health and happiness (Bjornskov 2003; Berggren and Jordahl 2006).”
Social Capital in the creation of Human Capital and Economic Growth: A Productive Consumption Approach (2008, neutral): “Several studies (Zak and Knack (2001), Bengtsson et al. (2005), Berggren and Jordahl (2006)) have used part of these data.”
Historical Trust Levels Predict the Current Size of the Welfare State (2011, neutral): “…do not exclude the possibility that certain types of welfare policies may have a positive effect on trust (as suggested by Barr, 2004, and Kumlin and Rothstein, 2005) or that institutions characterized by economic freedom positively affect trust-levels (as suggested by Berggren and Jordahl, 2006).”
What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything? (2008, neutral): “According to Berggren & Jordahl (2006), the degree of economic freedom, as measured by the Economic Freedom Index, and especially one of its constituent scales, “legal structure and security of property rights,” is a strong and significant predictor of generalized trust.”
How does social trust lead to better governance? An attempt to separate electoral and bureaucratic mechanisms (2010, neutral): “Hence, finding systematically heterogeneous effects may also be inconsistent with, e.g., the view proposed in studies arguing for the reverse causal direction or Beugelsdijk’s (2006) argument that trust scores simply reflect governance differences (see, e.g., Delhey and Newton 2005; Berggren and Jo”
Economic freedom, culture, and growth (2011, neutral): “Several studies show that culture enhances economic freedom and vice versa (for example, see Berggren and Jordahl 2006; Heinemann and Tanz 2008; Tabellini 2008b; Aghion et al. 2009).”
SOCIAL CAPITAL RENEWAL AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA (2008, neutral): “On the relationship between social capital and trade, stability, political and civic involvement, crime, health and happiness see, for example, Bjornskov (2003) and Berggren and Jordahl (2006).”
Does Economic Freedom Foster Tolerance (2013, positive): “As in the present study, Berggren and Jordahl (2006) make use of the economic freedom index and its five areas, and they do it to investigate the determinants of social trust.”
Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison (2007, neutral): “La Porta et al. (1997) and Berggren and Jordahl (2006) find strong negative effects of hierarchical religions (Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Islam) while Zak and Knack (2001) find that Catholics and Muslims are less trusting and Uslaner (2002) finds a positive effect of Protestantism.”
How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth (2012, neutral): “Knack and Zak, 2002; Uslaner, 2002; Bjørnskov, 2005). The set includes income inequality measured by Gini coefficients deriving from the Deininger and Squire (1996) dataset, data on monarchies and the religious composition of the population from CIA (2004) supplemented by USDS (2004), and ethnic div”