On the Empirics of Social Capital
综述了社会资本的研究，涵盖概念、经济理论建模、计量方法及对社会经济结果的影响，并指出当前研究中的概念和统计问题，提出改进方向。
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic outcomes. While our focus is primarily on the place of social capital in economics, we do consider its broader social science context. We argue that while the social capital literature has produced many insights, a number of conceptual and statistical problems exist with the current use of social capital by social scientists. We propose some ways to strengthen the social capital literature.