Social Capital: One or Many? Definition and Measurement

Paldam, Martín

doi:10.1111/1467-6419.00127

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“…Putnam (2000) indicates that social capital is defined as the features of a social organization such as networks and norms, and that social trust facilitates coordination and cooperation. Hence, social capital can be interpreted in various ways; thereby causing ambiguity and criticism about it measurement and the definition (e.g., Paldam 2000;Durlauf 2002aDurlauf , 2002b. It is necessary to use various indexes of social capital when analyzing the formation of social capital.…”

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Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys

Yamamura

2011

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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This paper, using individual data from Japan, explores how the circumstances of where a person resides is related to the degree of their investment in social capital.Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found: (1) Not only is the rate of homeowners in a locality positively related to investment in social capital, but the rate of homeownership there increases an individual"s investment in social capital. (2) The effect of local neighborhood homeownership is distinctly larger than that of an individual"s when endogeneity bias is controlled for using instruments such as land price and the rental price of an apartment.

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Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys

Yamamura

2011

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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“…While limited local studies investigate the role of social capital (Bebbington and Perreault, 1999), nationwide data on density of voluntary organizations (Putnam, 1993) or of social networks (e.g. Paldam, 2000) are lacking. Our analysis used a proxy variable for social cohesiveness-the percentage of each district's population classified as indigenous.…”

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Exploring the spatial variation of food poverty in Ecuador

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We examine the geographic dimensions of food consumption in Ecuador, which has one of the highest rates of chronic infant undernutrition in Latin America. We use statistical and spatial analyses to examine the distribution of * Corresponding Author.2 food consumption and food poverty and to test and generate hypotheses of food poverty estimates at the district level. Results show that the food poor are concentrated in certain locations with a significant cluster identified in the central Andean region. Geographically weighted regression shows that the processes underlying food poverty in Ecuador are also spatially variable. While our results lend support for nationwide land tenure reforms, in the central Andes these must take into account productivity constraints and communal ownership. Improvements in transport infrastructure will likely decrease levels of food poverty country-wide but could be most beneficial in the extreme south and in the province of Esmeraldas. Investment in rural enterprise development should be encouraged in all regions.

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“…The role of social networks in building "trust" or "social capital" among club members, e.g., in the context of managing common pool resources, has been a focal point of research in the fields of both game theory and experimental economics. For various perspectives on this literature see Libecap (1995), Ostrom (1998), Paldam (2000), and Sobel (2002).…”

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The Simple Economics of Conservation Clubs

Caplan¹

2017

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This paper examines how a regulatory authority might ideally promote the formation of "conservation clubs" among households in order to initiate and empower voluntary household-level water and energy conservation efforts. We characterize a socially optimal conservation benchmark and derive the conditions necessary for a club to effectively attain this benchmark on behalf of the wider community. Both theoretical and numerical analyses are used to demonstrate ways in which households choose to become club members and are subsequently empowered to undertake conservation efforts. The avenues through which club membership might empower households include (1) information provision/education that is assumed to alter key parameters of the household's welfare function, thereby inducing the household to build a stronger "conservation ethic," and (2) bulk-pricing arrangements that reduce the prices of applicable conservation technologies. Our results highlight key relationships between the regulator and households, as well as between the club and the marketplace, that should be measured empirically before efforts are made to establish conservation clubs in practice.

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Social Capital: One or Many? Definition and Measurement

Cited by 493 publications

References 16 publications

Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys

Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys

Exploring the spatial variation of food poverty in Ecuador

The Simple Economics of Conservation Clubs

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