An Economic Approach to Social Capital

By Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties (2010, neutral): “Social capital is an individual attribute that enables people to draw on resources from other members of the networks to which they belong and to obtain greater monetary and non monetary benefits from social interactions with others, such as valuable information, better working and living conditions”
Intangible Capital and Firms Productivity (2011, neutral): “Given the intrinsic difficulties in measuring a variable such as social capital (Glaeser et al, 2002), we are aware of the weaknesses of the proxy chosen in capturing its complex characteristics.”
Depleting Capital?: Race, Wealth and Informal Financial Assistance (2012, background): “, Raley 1995; Jayakody, Chatters and Taylor 1993; Haxton and Harknett 2009). Moreover, each of these studies analyzes race differences controlling for income – none look at how race differences in the provision of financial assistance vary with income. We therefore have no direct quantitative eviden”
Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions (2005, neutral): “Glaeser, Edward L.; Laibson, David I.; Scheinkman, Jose A. and Soutter, Christine L. "Measuring Trust."”
On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, positive): “Our basic framework treats the level of social capital in a community as an endogenous variable that represents the aggregation of individual-specific social capital levels (for example, investments in individual-specific social capital as in Glaeser, Laibson, and Sacerdote (2002)).”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “In this formulation, repeated social interaction has direct welfare value in overcoming the incentives for free riding and in building trust (Glaeser, Laibson, and Sacredote 2002).”
Determinants of regional resilience to economic crisis: a European perspective (2017, methodology): “Following Glaeser, Laibson, and Sacerdote (2002), we introduced several age cohorts in the model to capture the effect of the age, that is, share of population aged 15–29, share of population aged 30–49 and share of population aged older than 50 years.”
Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis: Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance (2017, positive): “Hence, some individuals or institutions, including firms, can invest more in developing social capital than others (see Coleman (1990), Leana and van Buren (1999), and Glaeser, Laibson, and Sacerdote (2002)).”
The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective (2005, background): “According to Golden (2003), politicians can maintain and reinforce linkages with their voters through the establishment of a complex system of political patronage.”