Social Cohesion and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

2015/12/01 by Zahid Pervaiz, Amatul R. Chaudhary · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Social Capital and Networks #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/1467-8462.12128

Abstract

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.

Citations

• Institutional Quality and Income Distribution
• A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
• Specification Tests in Econometrics
• Endogenous Technological Change
• A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
• Law and Finance
• Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
• Convergence

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