A typology of social capital and associated network measures

Jackson, Matthew O.

doi:10.1007/s00355-019-01189-3

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“…Several existing studies show that rural households share information regarding their production activities with members of their community (Bandiera & Rasul, 2006; Behrman et al, 2002; Conley & Udry, 2010; Fafchamps, 2004; Fafchamps & Minten, 2002; Munshi, 2004). Close communication through community participation reduces social distance among individuals, thereby making it easier for them to share information, enforce contracts, and reduce transaction costs in production activities (Jackson, 2020; Jackson, Rodriguez‐Barraquer, & Tan, 2012; Tsusaka, Kajisa, Pede, & Aoyagi, 2015).…”

Section: Identification Strategy and Resultsmentioning

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Motives behind community participation: Evidence from natural and artefactual field experiments in Sri Lanka

Shoji

Aoyagi²,

Kasahara³

et al. 2020

Pacific Economic Review

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We tested four alternative hypotheses concerning the motivations behind the participation by rural households in community work: public goods investment, production network formation, risk‐sharing network formation, and pure altruism. We used a unique dataset from an irrigation project in Sri Lanka under a natural experimental situation where a significant portion of irrigated land was allocated through a lottery mechanism. In addition, we elicited the level of altruism using the dictator game. By combining these data, we showed that community participation patterns fit the motive to form risk‐sharing networks better than the other major motives. Only a few studies have empirically investigated the process of risk‐sharing network formation, and our analysis fills the gap in the literature.

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Section: Identification Strategy and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motives behind community participation: Evidence from natural and artefactual field experiments in Sri Lanka

Shoji

Aoyagi²,

Kasahara³

et al. 2020

Pacific Economic Review

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“…Bridging positions are associated with access to diverse and novel information, that entails benefits of brokerage (Burt, 2005). Such positions allow the individual to exchange favours across these groups (Jackson, 2020;Jackson et al, 2012), which may be a benefit for the individual. From the ego's perspective, it means that the user connects distinct groups, which are not connected to each other directly, which is also a form of social capital (Burt, 2005).…”

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Do Diversity and Context Collapse Kill an Online Social Network?

Koltai¹,

Lénárd²,

Wachs³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Our social lives are segmented into various circles including family, friends, and colleagues. Differences in social norms and expectations between these circles can create tension, especially on large online social networks (OSNs), where their boundaries are blurred. It is unclear whether such phenomenon, called context collapse, outweighs the convenience of having diverse communities in one place for users of OSNs. To better understand this trade-off, we analyze whether ego-network characteristics suggestive of context collapse can explain exit choices from iWiW, a defunct Hungarian OSN with over 3.5 million active users at its peak. We measured context collapse with the presence of two conditions: the first is that communities of the user are non-overlapping, while the second is that these communities are different from each other. We find that users having merely overlapping communities were more likely to stay on the site. This result suggests that the benefits of being connected to diverse communities outweighs the tension from context collapse. Differences in gender composition of alter communities were associated with leaving, while having geographically distant connections were associated with staying longer on iWiW. Our results suggest that the tradeoff between access to diverse contacts and the stress of context collapse is a salient dimension in predicting user churn.

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“…The network theory literature links network-based utility, i.e., the utility derived by an individual from their social contacts, to the topological structure of the networks (Jackson, 2018). Hence, in this study, we use two kinds of social capital, as defined by Blumenstock, Chi and Tan (2019) -information capital and cooperation capital -which help understand the decision to migrate.…”

Section: Social Network Analysis (Sna)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Equal Cities : IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings

Iihs¹

2020

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Urban ARC is the Annual Research Conference of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). The fourth edition of Urban ARC, ‘Equal Cities’, focussed on the conceptual, theoretical and practical understanding of notions of equality and equity in the context of a rapidly urbanising world. Panels engaged with the idea of equity and equality through a range of lenses, across theory and praxis, across geographical and spatial contexts, and discipline and methodologies. The conference was held from 16 to 18 January 2020 at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus. These Conference Proceedings feature the extended abstracts submitted by the selected participants for Urban ARC 2020.

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A typology of social capital and associated network measures

Cited by 60 publications

References 54 publications

Motives behind community participation: Evidence from natural and artefactual field experiments in Sri Lanka

Motives behind community participation: Evidence from natural and artefactual field experiments in Sri Lanka

Do Diversity and Context Collapse Kill an Online Social Network?

Equal Cities : IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings

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