2006
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123150
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Estimating the Causal Effect of Social Capital: A Review of Recent Research

Abstract: Key Words peer effects, social networks, social homophily, fixed effects models ■ Abstract Although there is a large literature on social capital, empirical estimates of the effect of social capital may be biased because of social homophily, the tendency of similar people to become friends with each other. Despite the methodological difficulties, a recent literature has emerged across several different disciplines that tries to estimate the causal effect of social capital. This paper reviews this recent empiri… Show more

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“…As a result, a better-connected job seeker should have better labor-market outcomes. However, social-network studies suffer from an omitted-variable problem (Mouw 2003(Mouw , 2006; for a more general statement of this problem, see Manski 1995). Specifically, an observed or unobserved characteristic of the job seeker, such as her education or temperament, might create a spurious correlation between her social capital and her labor-market outcomes.…”
Section: Within-individual Comparisonmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As a result, a better-connected job seeker should have better labor-market outcomes. However, social-network studies suffer from an omitted-variable problem (Mouw 2003(Mouw , 2006; for a more general statement of this problem, see Manski 1995). Specifically, an observed or unobserved characteristic of the job seeker, such as her education or temperament, might create a spurious correlation between her social capital and her labor-market outcomes.…”
Section: Within-individual Comparisonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Specifically, an observed or unobserved characteristic of the job seeker, such as her education or temperament, might create a spurious correlation between her social capital and her labor-market outcomes. In fact, in a recent review of the social-network literature across a variety of areas, including job search, educational attainment, engaging in delinquency, and in migration, Mouw (2006) finds that taking network homophily into account leads to a substantial decline in the observed effects of contacts. This eliminates the possibility that observed or unobserved individual differences create a spurious correlation between social networks and labor-market outcomes.…”
Section: Within-individual Comparisonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While it seems intuitively plausible that the jobseekers benefit from contacts, the literature is plagued by the theoretical disagreement and inconclusive empirical evidence (Mouw 2006;Obukhova and Lan 2013). McDonald finds the evidence that individuals with more occupation-specific social capital are more likely to engage in search through contacts, in brief, that the individuals working in a particular occupation acquire the occupation-specific social capital.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These issues include job satisfaction (Moore, 1997), perceived work overload (Kirmeyer & Dougherty, 1988), perceived work/home conflict (Kreiner, 2006), strain (Moore, 2000), professional self-efficacy (Moore, 1997), job insecurity (Ashford, Lee, & Bobko, 1989), turnover intention in the organization (Moore, 1997), turnover intention in the IS profession (Moore, 1997), and friendship networks (Mouw, 2006;Lin & Erickson, 2008).…”
Section: Theoretical Framework and Key Constructsmentioning
confidence: 99%