What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?

Review of Economics and Statistics
David Tannenbaum, Alain Cohn, Christian Zünd, Michel Maréchal
Department of Management

Abstract

This paper examines whether commonly-used survey-based measures of social capital can predict real-world honest behavior.

What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital? Tannenbaum D, Cohn A, Zünd C, Maréchal M. Review of Economics and Statistics. 2025 Jan. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01245