The production of social capital in US counties

By Anil Rupasingha, Stephan J. Goetz, D. Freshwater. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu (2007, background): “Rupasingha et al. (2006). B o h em ia n a ttra ctio n to crea tive m iieu”
Sports participation and happiness: Evidence from US microdata (2010, methodology): “How does participation in physical activity benefit society? Policy makers around the world have implemented programs to increase participation in physical activity in order to promote health, fight rising obesity, deter crime, impart important life skills on youth, and achieve other important socie”
Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience (2010, methodology): “Similar to Rupasingha et al. (2006) , we were interested in the structural aspects of social capital and assumed that participation in key associational activities creates the propensity for applying collective action in new and relevant ways, and used secondary county-level data.”
Shaming tax delinquents (2015, neutral): “Civic life index is a county-level measure of social capital based on a number of indicators, such as the density of civic and nonprofit organizations (Rupasingha et al., 2006).”
Corruption and destructive entrepreneurship (2017, neutral): “This variable is collected from Rupasingha et al. (2006) and measures the frequency of voluntary responses to U.S. Census survey questions.”
Why Some Rural Places Prosper and Others Do Not (2009, background): “…advantages of specialization in a particular industry versus an agglomeration or cluster of interlinked industries, it has examined ethnic and cultural diversity versus homogeneity (Knack and Keefer 1997; Collier 2001; Rupasingha, Goetz, and Freshwater 2002, 2006; Ottaviano and Peri 2005, 2006).”
Mind the Gap! Social Capital, East and West (2008, background): “This is a major shortcoming, because “the dearth of research on determinants of social capital has held back its use as a policy tool in economic and social development” (Rupasingha et al., 2006: 84; see also Glaeser, 2001).”