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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

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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, Fabio (2008), "Social Capital and the Quality of Economic Development", Kyklos, Vol. 61, Issue 3, 466-499.

• Sabatini, Fabio (2008), "Social Capital as Social Networks: a New Framework for Measurement and an empirical analysis of its determinants and consequences", Journal of Socio-Economics, in press.

• Sabatini, Fabio (2008), "Misurare il capitale sociale ", in Garofalo, G. e F. Sabatini (a cura di), Homo Oeconomicus? Dinamiche imprenditoriali in laboratorio, Bologna, Il Mulino.

• Sabatini, Fabio (2008), "Guida pratica alla misurazione del capitale sociale ", in Garofalo, G. e F. Sabatini (a cura di), Homo Oeconomicus? Dinamiche imprenditoriali in laboratorio, Bologna, Il Mulino.

• 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.

• 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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