Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling

By K. Charles, Patrick M. Kline. 2006

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

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The influence of social relationships on pro-environment behaviors (2012, methodology): “As Charles and Kline [8] hypothesize, the effects may also differ according to social group and behavior; for example, since household recycling might be visible to community members, living among neighbors who are environmentally-minded may have a different effect on this behavior than ties with “g”
On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, unknown): “…others Participation strongly affects trust, each positively associated with socioeconomic status, confidence, negatively associated with being black Charles and Kline (2002) Adults in US Carpooling Ethnicity of neighbors Ethnic heterogeneity reduces social capital formation for some pairings,…”
What encourages people to carpool? An evaluation of factors with meta-analysis (2017, background): “Social differences and differences in values in potential members are barriers (Morency 2006), hence carpoolers will consider the races and ethnicities (which are usually linked to cultural background) of other prospective partners (Charles and Kline 2006).”
The production of social capital in US counties (2006, background): “Recent studies have attempted to delineate the causes or sources of social capital (Brehm and Rahn, 1997; Alesina and La Ferrara, 2000; Glaeser et al., 2000, 2002; Charles and Kline, 2002).”
Getting by with a little help from my friends…and family: immigrants and carpooling (2010, background): “For example, carpooling is negatively related to residential density and metropolitan area size (Charles and Kline 2006; Ferguson 1997; Teal 1987) since in many dense and large urban areas public transit serves as a reasonable substitute to travel by automobile.”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, methodology): “The model could easily accommodate realistic cases such as group-specific coordination costs based on ethnic or cultural differences as in Charles and Kline (2006), Hjort (2014) and Marx et al.”