How are social ties formed? Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility

Eiji Yamamura ()

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2011, vol. 40, issue 5, 472-474

Abstract: Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor's immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5 times larger than for renters.

Keywords: Social ties; Social capital; Homeownership; Length of residence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 R11 R23 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.09.008

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