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Social Capital, Finance, and Consumption : Evidence from a Representative Sample of Chinese Households
Cull, Robert - 2018
Using a new, nationally representative sample of Chinese households, this paper studies how social capital affects access to credit and its implications for consumption levels. The paper focuses on two specific forms of social capital: private social networks and membership in the Communist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935257
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Hidden Human Capital : Psychological Empowerment and Adolescent Girls'Aspirations in India
Roy, Sanchari - 2017
This paper studies the role of social-emotional or psychological capital in determining the education and employment aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in India. The study finds that girls'self-efficacy and mental health are important determinants of their educational and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968210
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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2017
capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust could be substantial. Using data from 132 nations covered by the … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … trust as a component of wealth and well-being, the paper concludes with some policy options for how social trust might be …
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
social capital measured by household and network surveys and lab activities that gauge trust, trustworthiness and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971305
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
social capital measured by household and network surveys and lab activities that gauge trust, trustworthiness and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971317
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International Interventions to Build Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2017
Over the past decade the international community, especially the World Bank, has conducted programs to increase local public service delivery in developing countries by improving local governing institutions and creating social capital. This paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973515
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Social Capital, Product Imitation and Growth with Learning Externalities
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
Links between social capital, human capital, and product imitation are studied in an overlapping generations model of endogenous growth where the key benefit of social capital is to promote imitation. There is also a two-way interaction between imitation and human capital. Building social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973988
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United We Stand Divided We Fall : Maternal Social Participation and Children's Nutritional Status in Peru
Favara, Marta - 2017
In previous literature, social capital has been hypothesized as a substitute for other forms of capital, such as physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community organizations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974832
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Life Satisfaction, Social Capital and the Bonding-Bridging Nexus
Pugno, Maurizio - 2017
The paper investigates the relation between social capital and life satisfaction focusing on the distinction between bonding and bridging. Using the latest version of the combined World and European Values Surveys, the authors first address the question of measurement of social capital by means...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975503
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Hiv/Aids and Social Capital in a Cross-Section of Countries
David, Antonio C. - 2017
in HIV prevalence will lead to a 1 percent decline in trust, controlling for other determinants of social capital. If one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746827