Social capital

Working paper

This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic outcomes. While our focus is primarily on the place of social capital in economics, we do consider its broader social science context. We argue that while the social capital literature has produced many i...

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Authors: Durlauf, S; Fafchamps, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Series: CSAE working paper series
• Place of publication: http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
• Publication date: 2004-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: JEL: O40; JEL: L14; social capital; JEL: E26; networks; development; JEL: Z13; JEL: O10; trust; growth; inequality; identification
• Subjects: Development economics; Economics; Industrial economics; Macro and international economics