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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital? |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published electronically before print/final form (Epub ahead of print) |
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| Journal Title | The Review of Economics and Statistics |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0034-6535 |
| Page Range | Epub ahead of print |
| Date | 2022 |
| Abstract Text | 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. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1162/rest_a_01245 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:23240 |
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| Keywords | Economics and econometrics, social sciences (miscellaneous) |