A Note on the Theory and Measurement of Trust in Explaining Differences in Economic Growth

By Sjoerd Beugelsdijk. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The productivity of trust (2015, background): “11 Some commentators have questioned the validity of the trust measures (Fine, 2001; Durlauf, 2002; Beugelsdijk, 2006).”
Determinants of Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Economies: The Effects of Relational and Institutional Trust (2015, unknown): “Beugelsdijk, 2006; Knack and Keefer, 1997) provided by the Survey (2009). We expect high-trust destination countries to receive a higher share of cross-border venture capital investments.”
Trust and Wellbeing (2010, unknown): “Beugelsdijk, S. (2006) ‘A Note on the Theory and Measurement of Trust in Explaining Differences in Economic Growth’, Cambridge Journal of Economics 30: 371-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bei064 Beugelsdijk, S., H.L.F. de Groot and A.B.T.M. van Schaik (2004) ‘Trust and Economic Growth: A Robustnes”
Social capital vs institutions in the growth process (2009, background): “Beugelsdijk (2006) argues that it is conceptually difficult to move from micro results to a macro level when it comes to social capital and that generalized trust as measured by the WVS might actually capture the quality of formal institutions, a claim that Uslaner (2008) strongly refutes.4 In a si”
The Foundations of Trust: Macro and Micro (2007, background): “Beugelsdijk (2006, 377–9) presents a factor analysis of a variety of cross-national indicators of political and social indicators, some of which are familiar (ethnic fractionalisation), some ambiguous (rule of law, which has been measured in many different studies), and some unfamiliar (social…”
The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, background): “7 Consistent with this theory, Sampson, Raudenbush, and Earls (1997) report significantly lower crime levels and self-reports of victimization in neighbourhoods characterized by social or collective efficacy Research has shown that the survey-based trust question may measure trustworthiness (Glaeser”
Differences in social capital between 54 Western European regions (2005, methodology): “…1 shows the shown that conflating these levels yields conceptual and number of hits when using Web of Science as a search methodological problems (B , 2005). engine for all English articles published in SSCI-ranked Without doubt, the most influential contribution to journals over the last 10…”
Microfoundations of Social Capital (2012, unknown): “However, this literature has been challenged on the grounds that it is unclear what survey measures such as the trust question actually measure (see e.g. Sobel 2002, Durlauf 2002, Beugelsdijk 2006).”