Social capital is a person or group's sympathy or sense of obligation for another person or
group. The objects of sympathetic feelings have social capital. Those holding sympathetic …

In introducing this Special Issue on Social Capital and Health, this article tracks the
popularization of the term 'social capital'and sheds light on the controversy surrounding the …

These notes are intended to provide some background reading for Robert Putnam's talk on
7 March, 2001 at the theory workshop. The notes do not provide an extensive literature …

Human capital is now widely recognized to confer numerous benefits, including higher
incomes, lower incidence of unemployment, and better health, to those who invest in it. Yet …

This symposium contains three papers that discuss aspects of social capital. Social capital
has become a major focus of research in many social sciences. Its increased prominence in …

Despite a great deal of interest in a possible decline of social capital in the United States,
scholars have not reached a consensus on the trend. This article improves upon previous …

A recent theoretical development within the social sciences has been the emergence of the
social capital research program. This is a program on relational resources, their creation …

If the capital metaphor is to be taken seriously, social capital must focus on sources and not
consequences. Human motive is the equivalent of physical capital goods which can perform …

This article is an update and continuation of Theodore Schultz's seminal, but largely
unheeded, 1959 article on human capital. Like Schultz, we suggest that building human …

Objective: Human Capital Theory, a well-established model from the field of economics,
maintains that a person's lifetime earnings are affected by the amount of education and job …