Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses

By Stephen F. Knack. 2003

220 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Do cooperative enterprises create social trust? (2012, unknown): “…all the relations they may have outside the workplace—including transactions—as argued in Putnam’s seminal studies and in previous empirical investigations on the effect of membership in definite types of associations on social trust (Stolle and Rochon 1999; Hooghe 2003; Freitag 2003; Knack 2003).”
• Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness? (2013, methodology): “These different views motivated empirical tests aimed at verifying if different groups or associations, called Olsonian and Putnamian, have a differing impact on economic growth (Knack 2003; Glaeser et al. 2000).”
• Social capital and subjective well-being trends: Comparing 11 western European countries (2010, unknown): “Groups and organizations entering the first set are labelled Putnam’s groups while those comprised in the second one are named Olson’s group (Knack, 2003).”