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Showing 1 to 20 of 1054 for “"Social capital"”.
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Social capital and microfinance
Chapter one is titled "Social Capital and Group Banking." Lending to the poor is costly due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe individuals are able to select creditworthy peers, monitor the use of loan proceeds, and enforce repayment better than an …
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Social capital in rural southwest Kansas.
This study addresses a social capital literature that has mostly targeted a White majority population in the United States. Hispanic audiences, especially new immigrant populations, have not been primary survey respondents in most studies. Information about the social connectedness of minorities …
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Social capital and the budgeting process
… practices in this church could be explained by social capital theory, and that budgeting could be viewed as a social phenomenon. I began to question whether considering budgeting as a social process might also apply to profit-orientated organisations. As part of this thesis, I approached two …
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Communication, home bias and social capital
… on the effects of communication, home bias and social capital. The first study analyzes three different laboratory treatments that determine if policies that introduce and improve communication are beneficial to a market. The control treatment has no communication. Then, two different types of …
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Finances, Social Capital, and College Organizational Membership
… in clubs and organizations, and the levels of social capital generated by involvement in campus clubs and organizations. Results indicate that the perception of financial strain has no significant effect on involvement in campus clubs and activities. The analysis also reveals that actual …
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Refugee community organisations: a social capital analysis
… how refugee-led community organisations generate social capital for their service users. The concept of social capital has become popular in policy debates in recent years, and previous research has attributed social capital creation for their service users to refugee community organisations …
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The Association Between Social Capital And Depression
… The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Social Capital (SC) a significant determinant of individual mental health. Despite that, there are limited studies analyzing the association between SC and the prevalence or severity of depressive symptoms experienced by suburban residents of the …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
… to patterns of trust, cooperation, and the social relations that underpin collective action. This thesis uses laboratory experiments to examine how inequality, fairness, and the institutional conditions for enforcement and information influence cooperation and social capital. It consists of …
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Essays on Social Capital and Peer Effects
… In Chapter 3, I investigate the role of social learning in enrollment decisions for a public pension scheme. All else equal, if a qualified rural resident moves from a community where no other co- villagers participate in the new pension scheme to a community that is fully covered by the …
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Social Capital and the U.S. Coffee Consumer
… coffee producers and how do networks and social capital among consumers and Fair Trade promoters shape this consciousness? This study sought to answer these questions, based on a data analysis of semi-structured interviews of 20 coffee consumers, roasters, distributors, café owners, and …
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Adoptive Status, Social Capital, and Academic Achievement
… the relationships among adoptive status, social capital, and academic achievement. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) had 609 adopted and 11, 940 non-adopted adolescents. I used OLS regression models to help explain why adopted adolescents have …
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Determining influence in social networks using Social Capital
The proliferation of online social networks enables the influence of a person or an event to propagate to every corner of the globe in a very short duration of time. The problem of identifying such key sources of influence is important for a wide variety of applications from sales and marketing to …
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Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn
… to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to the contrary, suggests otherwise. Social capital theory suggests that churn can have positive effects on communities by bringing new migrants with valuable human capital skills and experiences to communities. These migrants …
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Social Capital and Adolescent Student At-Risk Behaviors
… of adolescent students in relation to levels of social capital of 9–12 grade students. Data were gathered from the Youth Risk and Protective Factors Survey (YRPFS), administered to ninth through twelfth grade students in a school district located in a medium size midwest city. Factor analysis …
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Academic service-learning’s impact on students’ social capital
… examines whether there is a relationship between social capital and participation in academic service-learning courses within higher education. Through designing, implementing, and analyzing a survey which was given to students enrolled in courses with an academic service-learning component at …
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Software metrics for social capital in social media
… this research was creating metrics for measuring social connectedness in social media. This thesis made use of social capital theory in order to inform the construction of original metrics. The methodology used in this thesis involved conducting a literature review into the use of social capital …
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Social capital and faculty development in higher education
This dissertation examines the role of social networks in faculty development, arguing that formal initiatives neglect informal peer relationships and social capital, which can both enhance engagement in development activities and teaching practices. Grounded in Social Learning Theory and Social …
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