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Unpacking the Factors Associated with Loneliness: An Inferential Analysis from the INTERACT Study

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El-Osta A   +5 more
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Social Capital and Capital Structure

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
I demonstrate that in the context of a Modigliani-Miller-type model that a firm financing social capital and physical capital will favor equity financing over debt financing without bankruptcy. With bankruptcy, debt financing will be used, but equity financing will be favored by firms that use large amounts of social capital, as it will increase their ...
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Social Media Social Capital, Offline Social Capital, and Citizenship: Exploring Asymmetrical Social Capital Effects

Political Communication, 2016
In pursuit of a healthier and participatory democracy, scholars have long established the positive effects of social capital, values derived from resources embedded in social ties with others which characterize the structure of opportunity and action in communities.
Gil de Zuniga, Homero   +2 more
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Social Capital

2020
Social capital is created by engagement in groups or associations. As a product of social involvement inside and outside of the family, people trust others more. Social commitment leads to activism while expanding social trust and cooperation for mutual benefit.
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Social capital

Development in Practice, 2007
In parallel with, and as a complement to, globalisation, 'social capital' has enjoyed a meteoric rise across the social sciences over the last two decades. Not surprisingly, it has been particularly prominent across development studies, not least through heavy promotion by the World Bank.
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Not all social capital is good capital

Health & Place, 2009
Limited empirical research on social capital has investigated the potential downside of social capital on health and well-being. We hypothesized that social capital and mastery might vary according to education with lower-educated persons experiencing fewer advantages.
Spencer, Moore   +3 more
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Media and Social Capital

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Guided by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital—from social and political participation to interpersonal trust—in its benign and destructive manifestations.
Campante, Filipe   +2 more
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Between Capitalized Socialism and Social Capitalism

Problems of Economic Transition, 1993
Once when we were en route to one of the Baltic republics, our vehicle suddenly swerved on the wet road and spun around several times. There we were in the middle of the night on the right side of a deserted road—just as we should be but without an inkling of the direction we should take or where we should go now.
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