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Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation (1997)
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| Venue: | Quarterly Journal of Economics |
| Citations: | 1332 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Knack97doessocial,
author = {Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer},
title = {Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation},
journal = {Quarterly Journal of Economics},
year = {1997},
pages = {1251--1288}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents evidence that “social capital ” matters for measurable economic performance, using indicators of trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies. Memberships in formal groups—Putnam’s measure of social capital—is not associated with trust or with improved economic performance. We find trust and civic norms are stronger in nations with higher and more equal incomes, with institutions that restrain predatory actions of chief executives, and with better-educated and ethnically homogeneous populations. I.
