Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
利用29个市场经济体的世界价值观调查数据，发现信任和公民规范与更高的收入、更平等的分配以及更好的经济表现相关，而正式团体成员身份则不然。
This paper presents evidence that “social capital” matters for measurable economic performance, using indicators of trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies. Memberships in formal groups—Putnam's measure of social capital—is not associated with trust or with improved economic performance. We find trust and civic norms are stronger in nations with higher and more equal incomes, with institutions that restrain predatory actions of chief executives, and with better-educated and ethnically homogeneous populations.