We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in … general can be trusted. This is important since social trust is related to many desired outcomes, such as growth, education … possible determinants of social trust and, by using instrumental variables, for the risk of reverse causality, indicate a …

The article analyzes the extent of the transmission of social capital from parents to their children. Three measures of … social capital are used: social trust, participation in social activities and useful social connections. The data from the … of social capital are analyzed. Second, using logistic regression, four theoretical models (the social capital model, the …

shortfall to lack of social capital. It finds that the literature is not able to account for the actual economic growth … experience, only in a significantly reformulated and misleading way. The paper considers how social capital is defined and which … supports the contention that social capital is best understood as an outcome, and not a cause of growth. At the present state …

During the last 15 years, the social capital literature has grown rapidly. In particular after Robert Putnam’s (1993 … unavoidably indiscriminate as to distinguishing between the various elements of social capital, but more recent literature has … stressed the need to distinguish between the constituent elements of Putnam’s social capital concept, in particular emphasizing …