On the empirics of social capital

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Durlauf, SN
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00079
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: F459-F479
• 关键词: income

摘要

This paper critically examines the way in which empirical evidence is developed in support of a role for social capital in socioeconomic outcomes. Three leading studies of social capital are reviewed and in each case argued to suffer from various identification problems. A general set of conditions under which social capital effects may be identified in linear models is given. Careful attention to these conditions combined with greater openmindedness as to what constitutes appropriate evidence seems the best route to improving empirical studies of social capital.