2015/12/01 by Zahid Pervaiz, Amatul R. Chaudhary · 26 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cohesion (chemistry) #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Demographic economics #Econometrics #Economics #Empirical research #Group cohesiveness #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies #Mathematics #Panel data #Proxy (statistics) #Psychology #Social Capital and Networks #Social capital #Social psychology #Social science #Sociology #Statistics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/1467-8462.12128
published in Australian Economic Review 48(4), 369-381 (Wiley)
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This study is an attempt to empirically investigate the effect of social cohesion on economic growth by using panel data for a large set of countries. We have used two different indices—Intergroup Cohesion and Membership of Clubs and Voluntary Associations—as a proxy for social cohesion. Our empirical findings suggest that different dimensions of social cohesion do not have the same kind of effect on economic growth. Intergroup Cohesion (bridging social capital) has a positive and significant effect, whereas Membership of Clubs and Voluntary Associations (bonding social capital) has a negative and significant relationship with economic growth.