Estimating the Causal Effect of Social Capital: A Review of Recent Research

By Ted Mouw. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Determinants of consumer engagement in electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in social networking sites (2011, background): “Because individuals tend to socialise with those who share similar characteristics, often termed social homophily (Mouw 2006), interpersonal communications are more likely to occur between two individuals who are alike – that is, homophilous (Lazarsfeld & Merton 1954).”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, methodology): “…may need to employ additional estimation techniques such as selection and treatment effects models that employ time-varying instruments (see Mouw, 2006; Stuart & Sorenson, 2007) or propensity score matched sampling techniques (e.g., Aral, Muchnik, & Sundararajan, 2009) to help improve the…”
Bringing Managers Back In (2011, background): “It is possible, however, that the effects of social network influence may be driven, in part, by the social similarity between ego and alter (Mouw 2006).”
International Evidence on Ability Grouping with Curriculum Differentiation and the Achievement Gap in Secondary Schools (2010, background): “…in the United States suggests that peer processes do help to explain the link between the academic and social composition of students’ classrooms and their achievement outcomes, although difficult methodological problems in estimating such peer effects are far from completely resolved (Mouw, 2006).”
Online Social Interactions: A Natural Experiment on Word of Mouth versus Observational Learning (2011, unknown): “Because unobserved product characteristics can influence both product sales and social interactions, given the nature of the current data, we adopted a first-difference model to circumvent this endogeneity problem (Mouw 2006; Wooldridge 2002).”
How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study (2019, background): “What is the effect of social contacts on labor market success (Mouw 2006)?”
Capital at Home and at School: A Review and Synthesis (2010, background): “However, they also reinforce points made by Mouw (2006) regarding the endogeneity problem that plagues many studies of social capital effects.”
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “This assumption, we believe, is a more insidious one in the extant literature (Mouw, 2006).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “…majority of cases.6 The basic problem is easy to comprehend—if diffi cult to solve—and has been discussed at length by a variety of authors in the context of the general challenges of identifying social capital or peer effects (Blalock, 1984; Manski, 1993; Durlauf and Fafchamps, 2004; Mouw, 2006).”
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany 1 (2012, background): “The positive correlation between social contacts and economic outcomes for immigrants may also be spurious, merely reflecting the fact that people with similar backgrounds tend to associate with each other (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook, 2001; Mouw, 2003, 2006).”
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (2018, background): “arguing that informal referral processes are one of the drivers of segregation of jobs (Doeringer and Piore, 1971; Mouw, 2006; Rubineau and Fernandez, 2010).”