What Do Cross-Country Surveys Tell Us about Social Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19316111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Tannenbaum (0000-0002-6603-7370, University of Utah, corresponding author), Alain Cohn (0000-0002-0145-1650, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Christian Lukas Zünd (University of Zurich), Christian Zünd (0000-0002-4436-4071, University of Zurich, corresponding author), Michel André Maréchal (0000-0002-6627-0252, University of Zurich and UC San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-151 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_01245 |
| OpenAlex | W3112540417 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 50 |
We assess the predictive power of survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital—especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality—are strongly and significantly correlated with country-level differences in wallet reporting rates. A second finding is that lost wallet reporting rates predict unique variation in the outputs of social capital, such as economic development and government effectiveness, not captured by existing measures
Actuarial science · Business · Capital (architecture) · Demographic economics · Economics · General Social Survey · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Power (physics) · Predictive power · Public economics · Set (abstract data type) · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Variation (astronomy) · World Values Survey · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |