Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 112 (4), 1251-1288
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355300555475
Abstract
This paper presents evidence that “social capital” matters for measurable economic performance, using indicators of trust and civic norms from the WoKeywords
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