This research focuses on emancipative value orientations, regional factors and their interaction in determining social capital in Russia. We are especially interested in how the effects vary for formal and informal social capital, measured as different types of civic engagement. Applying...

Recent work on Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. This paper uses the new experiment to validate the alternative way of measuring trust and honesty from questionnaires. Comparisons of wallet return rates and...

This paper presents evidence that "social capital" matters for measurable economic performance, using indicators of trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies. Memberships in formal groups--Putnam's measure of social capital--is not associated with...