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Measuring social capital
Measuring
Social Capital
This section is devoted to the measurement
of social capital. It includes theoretical works on measurement
methods, empirical studies measuring social capital at a local level,
experimental studies measuring social norms of altruism and reciprocity,
and few useful surveys of the literature
Essential readings
Further readings
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Essential Readings
Alesina, A., La Ferrara, E. (2002), Who
Trusts Others?, Journal of Public Economics 85, 207-234
Carpenter, J. (2000), Measuring
Social Capital:Adding Field Experimental Methods to the Analytical
Toolbox, in Social Capital Economic Development and the Environment,
S. Ramaswamy, J. Isham and T. Kelly (eds), pp. 119-137.
Durlauf, S.N. (2002), On
the Empirics of Social Capital, Department of Economics, University
of Wisconsin.
Glaeser, E., Laibson, D.J., Scheinkman,
J., Soutter, C.S., (2000), Measuring
Trust, Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (August), 811-846.
Grootaert, C., van Bastelaer,
T. (2002), Understanding
and Measuring Social Capital: A Multi-Disciplinary Tool for Practitioners,
Washington DC, The World Bank.
Grootaert, C., Narayan, D., Nyhan Jones,
V., Woolcock, M. (2003), Integrated
Questionnaire for the Measurement of Social Capital, The World
Bank Social Capital Thematic Group, June 2003.
Karlan, D. (2003), Using
Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial
Decisions, Princeton University, Department of Economics.
Paldam, M. (2000), Social
Capital: One Or Many? Definition And Measurement, in Journal
of Economic Surveys, 14, 5, pp. 629-653.
Paxton, P. (1999), Is
Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator
Assessment, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Jul.,
1999) , pp. 88-127.
Poulsen, A., Svendsen, G.T. (2003), Rise
and Decline of Social Capital. Excess Co-operation in the One-Shot
Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Department of Economics, Aarhus School
of Business Working paper 03-10.
Owen, A.L., Videras, J. (2006), Reconsidering
Social Capital: A Latent Class Approach, Hamilton College, mimeo.
Sabatini, F. (2005), Social
Capital as Social Networks. A New Framework for Measurement,
Working Paper No. 83, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department
of Public Economics.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), Does
Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?,
Working Paper No. 92, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department
of Public Economics.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), Social
Capital, Public Spending and the
Quality of Economic Development: the Case of Italy, FEEM Working
Paper 14.06, Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation, Milan, January 2006.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), Social
capital, labour precariousness and the economic performance. An
empirical assessment of the strength of weak ties in Italy,
Third Sector and Civil Economy Working Paper Series, No. 26, January
2006, University of Bologna, Faculty of Economics.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), The
Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical
Perspective, FEEM Working Paper 15.06, January 2006, Eni Enrico
Mattei Foundation, Milan.
Sabatini, Fabio (2005), The
Role of Social Capital in Economic Development. Investigating the
Causal Nexus through Structural Equations Models, University
of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Public Economics, mimeo.
Stone, W. (2001), Measuring
Social Capital, Melbourne, Australian Institute of Family Studies,
Research Paper No. 24/2001.
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Further Readings
Arrighetti, A., Lasagni, A., Seravalli. G. (2001), Capitale
sociale, associazionismo economico e istituzioni: indicatori statistici
di sintesi, Department of Economics, Parma University, Working
Paper No. 2001-04.
Bellemare, C., Kroeger, S. (2003), On
Representative Trust, Paper presented at the Conference
Sustainable Ties in the Information Society, Tilburg
University, March, 2003.
Berg, J., Dickaut, J., McCabe, K. (1995),
Trust,
Reciprocity and Social History, Games and Economic Behavior,
10, 122-42.
Bjørnskov, C., Svendsen, G.T.
(2003), Measuring
Social Capital. Is There a Single Underlying Explanation?, Department
of Economics, Aarhus School of Business.
Brehm, J., Rahn, W. (1997), Individual-Level
evidence for the causes and consequences of Social Capital,
American Journal of Political Science, 41, 3, 999-1023.
Brülhart, M.,
Usunier, J.-C. (2004), Verified
Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games, CEPR
Discussion Paper No. 4758.
Bullen, P., Onyx, J. (2000), Measuring
Social Capital in five Communities in NSW, Onyx and Bullen - Journal
of Applied Behavior Science, Vol 36 No 1 March 2000 pp23-42.
Carpenter, J., Daniere, A., Takahashi,
L. (2003), Comparing
Measures of Social Capital Using Data From Southeast Asia Slums.
Carpenter, J., Daniere, A., Takahashi,
L. (2003), Cooperation,
Trust and Social Capital in Southeast Asian Urban Slums, revise
and resubmit at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Carter, M.R., Castillo, M. (2003),
Does
It Take More than Markets to Get Ahead? An Experimental Approach
to Social Capital in South Africa, Agricultural and Applied
Economics Staff Paper Series, Paper No. 448, University of Wisconsin.
Chauduri, A., Sopher, B., Strand, P.
(2002), Cooperation in Social Dilemmas, Trust and Reciprocity, Journal
of Economic Psychology 23 (2002), 231-249.
Coricelli, G., Gonzales Morales, L.,
Mahlstedt, A. (2002), Trust
and Reciprocity under Asymmetric Information, Quaderni dell'Università
degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento di Economia Politica, n. 357
settembre 2002.
Costa, D.L., Kahn, M.E. (2001), Understanding
the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998, NBER Working Paper
8295, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Couto, R.A. (2000), Taking
Stock. Measuring Social Capital at the Local Level, Paper prepared
for the 29th Annual Conference of Association
for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action,
New Orleans, November 16-18, 2000.
Croson, R., Buchan, N. (1999),
Gender
and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games,
American Economic Review (papers and proceedings), 89, 386-91.
Durkin, J.T. (2000), Measuring
Social Capital and its Economic Impact, Discussion Paper 2000/04,
Population Research Center at NORC & University of Chicago.
Eckel, C., Grossmann, P. (1996),
Altruism
in Anonymous Dictator Games, Games and Economic Behavior, 16,
181-91.
Fehr, E., Fischbacher, U., Schupp,
J., von Rosenbladt, B., Wagner, G.G. (2003), A
Nationwide Laboratory Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating
Behavioural Experiments into Representative Surveys, CEPR Working
Paper No. 3858, Center for Economic Policy Research.
Fehr, E., Gaetcher, S., Kirchsteiger,
G. (1997), Reciprocity
as a contract enforcement device, Econometrica, 65, 833-60.
Galassi, F. (2002), Measuring
Social Capital: Culture as an Explanation of Italy's Economic Dualism.
Grenier, P., Wright,
K. (2004), Social
capital in Britain: an update and critique of Hall’s analysis,
London School of Economics, Centre for Civil Society Working Paper
No. 14.
Grootaert (2002) Social
Capital, household welfare and poverty in Indonesia, Policy
Research Working Paper no. 2148, Washington D.C., The World Bank.
Harper, R. (2002),
The measurement
of social capital in the UK, Paper prepared for the OECD-ONS
Conference on SC Measurement, London, September 26-27, 2002.
Harpham, T. (2003),
Measuring
the social capital of children, Young Lives Working Paper No.
4, London South Bank University.
Healy, T. (2003), Social
Capital: Challenges for its Measurement at International Level,
paper presented at the Conference "Social Capital and Economic
Development", University of Tilburg, 2003.
Hjollund, L., Svendsen, G.T. (2000),
Social capital:
a standard method of measurement, Aarhus School of Business,
Department of Economics
Holm, H., Nystedt, P. (2005),
Trust
in surveys and games. A matter of money and location?, Department
of Economics, Lund University, mimeo.
Hudson, L., Chapman,
C. (2002), The
measurement of Social capital in the United States, Paper prepared
for the OECD-ONS Conference on SC Measurement, London, September
26-27, 2002.
Keele, L. (2004),
Macro
Measures And Mechanics of Social Capital, Department of Politics
and International Relations, Nuffield College and Oxford University,
Unpublished Paper.
Krishna, A., Uphoff, N. (1999), Mapping
and Measuring Social Capital: A Conceptual and Empirical Study of
Collective Action for Conserving and Developing Watersheds in Rajastan,
India, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper no. 13, Washington
D.C., World Bank
Lazzarini, S.G., Madalozzo, R.C., Artes, R.,
Siqueira, J.O. (2003), Measuring
trust: An experiment in Brazil, Ibmec Working Paper No. 40,
Ibmec Business School of São Paulo.
Li, Y, Pickles,
A., Savage, M. (2003), Conceptualizing
and measuring social capital: a new approach, Paper for BHPS
2003, Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester.
Lin, N., Fu, Y.,
Hsung, R. (2001), The Position Generator: measurement techniques
for social capital, in: Lin, N., Cook, K., Burt, R.S. (eds.), Social
capital: theory and research, New York, Aldine De Gruyter.
Mateju, P. (2002),
Social capital:
problems of its conceptualization and measurement in transforming
societies, Paper prepared for the OECD-ONS Conference on SC
Measurement, London, September 26-27, 2002.
Narayan, D., Pritchett,
L. (1998), Cents
and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania,
Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Narayan, D., Cassidy, M.F. (2001), A
Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and
Validation of a Social Capital Inventory, Current Sociology,
49, 2, 59-105.
Ockenfels, A., Weimann, J. (1999), Types and
Patterns: an Experimental East-Weast German Comparison of Cooperation
and Solidarity, Journal of Public Economics, 71, 275-87.
Pattanaik, P.K., Xu, Y. (2003), On
Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks,
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Working Paper.
Paxton, P. (2005), Trust
in Decline?, Contexts, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 2005.
Pevalin, D.J., Rose,
D. (2002), Social
capital for health. Investigating the links between social capital
and health using the British Household Panel Survey, London,
Health Development Agency.
Poulsen, A., Poulsen, O. (2002), Social
Preferences in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game: an Evolutionary Analysis,
Aarhus School of Business.
Putnam, R. (2001), Social
Capital: Measurement and Consequences, in
The
Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth
and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited
by the OECD and HRDC.
Snijders, T.A.B. (1999) Prologue to the
measurement of social capital. La Revue Tocqueville, 20, 27-44.
Soroka, S.N., Heliwell, J.F.,
Johnston, R. (2003), Measuring
and Modelling Trust, in Kay, F., Johnston, R. (eds), Diversity,
Social Capital and the Welfare State, Vancouver, BC: University
of British Columbia Press.
Statistics New Zealand (2002), Framework
for the Measure of Social Capital in New Zealand.
Stone, W., Hughes, J. (2001),
Sustaining
Communities: An empirical investigation of social capital in regional
Australia, Paper presented to SEGRA 2001 Fifth National Conference,
10 - 12 September 2001, Townsville.
Subramanian, S.V., Lochner, K.A.,
Kawachi, I. (2003), Neighborhood
differences in social capital: a compositional artifact or a contextual
construct?, Health & Place 9 (2003) 33–44.
Svendsen, G.H.L., Svendsen, G.T.
(2000), Measuring
Social Capital: The Danish Co-operative Dairy Movement, Sociologia
Ruralis, January 2000, Vol. 40, No. 1, 72-86(15).
Täube, V.G. (2002), Zur Messung
des Sozialkapitals von Akteuren mit Einfluss in empirischen Netzwerken;
Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang
Täube, V.G. (2004), Measuring
the Social Capital of Brokerage Roles, Connections, 26(1), 29-52.
Van der Gaag, M.P.J., Snijders, T.A.B.
(2002), An
Approach to the Measurement of Individual Social Capital, University
of Groningen and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Van der Gaag, M.P.J., Snijders, T.A.B.
(2003), A
Comparison of Measures of Individual Social Capital, University
of Groningen and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Van der Gaag, M.P.J., Snijders,
T.A.B. (2004), The
Resource Generator: measurement of individual social capital with
concrete items, Paper presented at the XXII Sunbelt international
Social Networks Conference; february 13-17, New Orleans, US.
Van der Gaag, M.P.J., Snijders,
T.A.B., Flap, H.D. (2004), Position
Generator measures and their relationship to other social capital
measures, Paper presented at the XXIII Sunbelt international
Social Networks Conference; february 12-16, Cancún, Mexico.
Van Geel, H. (2002), Measuring
Social Capital in Belgium, Department Planning and Statistics,
Ministry of the Flemish Community.
Van Schaik, T. (2002), Social
Capital in the European Values Study Surveys, paper prepared
for the OECD-ONS International Conference on Social Capital Measurement,
London, 2002.
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