The Role of Community and Individuals in the Formation of Social Capital |
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Authors: | Ricardo Godoy Victoria Reyes-García Tomás Huanca William R Leonard Ramona G Olvera Jonathan Bauchet Zhao Ma Jonathan St John Marisa Miodowski Oscar Zapata Rios Vincent Vadez Craig Seyfreid |
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Institution: | (1) Sustainable International Development (SID) Program, MS 078, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA;(2) Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain;(3) Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | Because social capital shapes many desirable socioeconomic outcomes, we ask what incentives drive private investments in social
capital. We estimate the association between private investments in social capital (outcome variable) and the following explanatory
variables: (a) individual-level variables from an optimal investment model, (b) spillovers from group social capital, (c)
village income inequality, and (d) market openness. We draw on information from Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society of foragers
and farmers in Bolivia, and equate social capital with gifts, help given, and communal labor offered by the household. Age
bore an inverted U-shaped and income bore a positive association with social capital, but geographic mobility, wealth, and
schooling bore no significant association with social capital. We found strong group-level associations even after instrumenting
social capital; the association probably stems from strong kinship ties which tend to blur the line between the group and
the individual. Village measures of social capital were positively and significantly associated with private investments in
social capital. We found some evidence that village income inequality and market openness were negatively associated with
private investments in social capital. |
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Keywords: | Social capital generosity pro-social behavior Bolivia Tsimane’ |
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