The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan

Eiji Yamamura ()

Economics of Education Review, 2011, vol. 30, issue 2, 380-389

Abstract: This paper attempts to examine how social trust influences human capital formation using prefectural level data in Japan. To this end, I constructed a proxy for social trust, based on the Japanese General Social Surveys. After controlling for socioeconomic factors, I found that social trust plays an important role in reducing the rate of long-term truancy in primary and junior high school. Results suggest that social trust improves educational quality.

Keywords: Human; capital; Educational; economics; Economic; impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (33)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272-7757(10)00165-2
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan (2010)
Working Paper: The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:30:y:2011:i:2:p:380-389

Access Statistics for this article

Economics of Education Review is currently edited by E. Cohn

More articles in Economics of Education Review from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().