Social Capital and Economic Growth: A County-Level Analysis

By Anil Rupasingha, Stephan J. Goetz, D. Freshwater. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2000

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Social and institutional factors as determinants of economic growth: Evidence from the United States counties (2002, result): “Results in model 3 confirm previous findings by Rupasingha et al. (2000) , suggesting that social capital variables ( Group1 and Group2) are robust even after inclusion of ethnicity and income inequality.”
The production of social capital in US counties (2006, background): “Rupasingha et al. / The Journal of Socio-Economics 35 (2006) 83–101”
Why Some Rural Places Prosper and Others Do Not (2009, background): “In determining that counties with more social capital had more per capita income growth, Rupasingha, Goetz, and Freshwater (2000) measured social capital as the ‘‘density of associational activity’’ and added the number of establishments in each county that are ‘‘bowling centers, public golf…”
Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis (2007, methodology): “Rupasingha et al. (2000, 2002) found that social capital has a significant positive effect on the rate of per capita income growth.”