On the Empirics of Social Capital

By Steven N. Durlauf. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy : final report (2002, positive): “This was recognised very early by Coleman (1988), who argued that the same basic individual skills have much better chances of being well cultivated and developed in a socially rich environment than in a socially poor one. Goldin and Katz (1999a), in a study on the development of secondary education”
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics (2005, neutral): “Durlauf and Fafchamps (2004) provided an economics-oriented discussion of”
An Economic Approach to Social Capital (2002, neutral): “Our empirical analysis does not address the fundamental causality issues raised by Durlauf (2002) .”
How Familial Is Family Social Capital? Analyzing Bonding Social Capital in Family and Nonfamily Firms (2018, positive): “Social capital is defined as the set of resources inherent in family relationships and community social organization that is useful for cognitive and social development (Coleman, 1990).”
Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale ☆ (2009, neutral): “The literature on social capital provides another rich source of information on human altruism and selfishness (e.g., Halpern, 2004; Putnam, 2000; Sampson, McAdam, MacIndoe, & Weffer-Elizondo, 2005).”
Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, neutral): “As pointed out by Durlauf and Fafchamps (2005), a bit of altruism is often su¢ cient to eliminate free riding in prisoner s dilemma situations.”
Social capital, governance and performance of Ethiopian coffee cooperatives (2012, positive): “Otherwise, communities with more bridging than bonding social capital are more outwards-oriented, but provide less collective resources for responding to collective threats (Halpern 2005).”
Dynamics of Networks if Everyone Strives for Structural Holes1 (2008, neutral): “Jobs are more desirable (Bian 1994; Leenders and Gabbay 1999; Lin 1999; Lin, Cook, and Burt 2001).”
Social Capital and Knowledge Creation: Diminishing Returns of the Number and Strength of Exchange Relationships (2004, positive): “Drawing upon previous research, we define social capital as the interpersonal relationships of a person, as well as the resources embedded in those relationships (Bourdieu, 1986; Coleman, 1988; Lin, 2001; Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998).”
Community Resilience: Models, Metaphors and Measures (2009, neutral): “Finally, as a theory of the impact of the social environment, social capital can be linked to health outcomes (Baum & Ziersch, 2003; Crossman, 2008; Edmondson, 2003; von Kemenade, 2003a).”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, positive): “Although many economists and geogra-phers have agreed that empirical studies are weak on explanation (Durlauf 2002; Sobel 2002; Castle 2002), I argue that these insights offer the greatest explanatory power in explaining the evolution of the collective management of environmental resources.”
Factors Affecting Technology Uses in Schools: An Ecological Perspective (2003, positive): “3Defining social capital as the potential to access resources through social relations (Coleman, 1988); for recent reviews see Lin, 2001; Portes, 1998; Frank, Zhao, and Borman (in press) argue that an actor who receives help that is not formally mandated draws on social capital by obtaining…”
Why Should I Share? Examining Social Capital and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice (2005, neutral): “Despite the growing interest in online cooperation and virtual orga nizing, there is surprisingly little empirical research into the communication and organization pro cesses of electronic networks, and how partici pation in these networks relates to sharing knowledge (Lin 2001; Monge et al. 1998).”
Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, positive): “As pointed out by Durlauf and Fafchamps (2005), a bit of altruism is often sufficient to eliminate free riding in prisoner's dilemma situations.”
THE VARIETY OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN WELFARE STATE REGIMES – A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 21 COUNTRIES (2006, neutral): “In this context the concept of social capital is important: it refers to the social resources that are important in the formation of well-being of individuals (Field 2003: 44 /70; Halpern 2005: 73 /112).”