Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility.

ABSTRACT: Social capital-the strength of an individual's social network and community-has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health^1-8. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Here, in the first of a pair of papers⁹, we use data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook to study social capital. We measure and analyse three types of social capital by ZIP (postal) code in the United States: (1) connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low versus high socioeconomic status (SES); (2) social cohesion, such as the extent of cliques in friendship networks; and (3) civic engagement, such as rates of volunteering. These

SUBMITTER: Chetty R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352590 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature