participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has … resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust …

implications arising from this trust. We explore whether populations reporting low levels of confidence in the health care system … find that societies with low levels of health care confidence initially exhibit a faster response with respect to staying … response from societies with high health care confidence. On the other hand, regions with higher confidence in the health care …

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a …. -- Technology ; Economic Growth ; Relational Goods ; Social Participation ; Social Capital …