The contextual‐level effects of social trust on health in transitional countries: Instrumental variable analysis of 26 countries

Habibov, Nazim; Cheung, Alex

doi:10.1002/hpm.2427

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“…Please tell me on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 means you can't be too careful and 10 means that most people can be trusted". Following the literature, individual responses averaged across communities will gauge the level of community social trust (Kim et al, 2011;Campos-Matos et al, 2015;Habibov and Cheung, 2018). The first Instrument, population density, is measured as persons/km2 and is taken from the International Database of the US Census Bureau (2016).…”

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“…In comparison, previous studies have concentrated on individual-level social trust only as they followed the tradition of conceptualizing social capital as the resources embedded within an individual's durable social network, and therefore the analysis was conducted at the individual level (Bourdieu, 1985;Lin, 1999;Arezzo and Giudici, 2017). However, the novelty of the concept of social capital lies in its collective, contextualized, area-level leverage (Kim et al, 2011;De Clercq et al 2012;Habibov and Cheung, 2018). This line of conceptualization originates from the work of Putnam (2000), who demonstrated that social capital plays a role in the public good at both the community and area levels.…”

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Effect of the contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment: an instrumental variable analysis of 26 nations

Auchynnikava,

Habibov,

Lyu

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of contextual (community) level social trust on women’s empowerment. The specific knowledge gap explored in this study is that the previous studies theorized that community trust has a positive impact on women’s empowerment. Thus, an increase in trust in the community will empower women. However, such an assumption has been never empirically tested and confirmed. Against this backdrop, the present paper develops a theoretical argument on why the increase in community trust should lead to a higher level of women empowerment. Then, a cross-country survey was used as a data source to test the effect of community trust on women’s empowerment. A traditional single-stage OLS and instrumental variable regressions are estimated to test the effect of community trust on women’s empowerment and quantify the magnitude of such impact. The key finding of this paper is that community trust indeed significantly strengthens the empowerment of women by increasing women’s ownership of assets and improving the decision-making authority of women in the family. Importantly, our findings are robust for the separate rural and urban samples, as well as the samples of younger and older women. Equally, our findings are robust for an alternative set of instruments. The main implication of these findings is that policymakers, social administrators, and government authorities who are working on promoting gender equality should give priority to promoting community-based interventions that nurture and maintain women’s trust.

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confidence: 99%