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SOCIAL COHESION, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WELL-BEING
Stefano Bartolini University of Siena
DELHI, OECD WORLD FORUM 2012
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Social capital as a very important component of social cohesion
• Social capital is very important because it has a «special relationship» with well-being
• My topic: the capacity of social capital to
predict the international differences in the trends of subjective well-being (SWB)
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International differences in the trends of SWB
• The trends of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) show a substantial heterogeneity across countries.
• In the last thirty years SWB has increased in some countries and decreased in others, (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2008; Inglehart, 2009). For instance: US vs. EU
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Trend in US happiness Declining Trend in US happiness
Source: Stevenson and Wolfers 2008, GSS data
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Source: Stevenson and Wolfers 2008
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What does predict these differences? (Bartolini and Sarracino 2011)
• In the long-term GDP does not: the Easterlin paradox
• Next graphs: data from the WVS-EVS
• GDP vs. social capital: We compare the capacity of the trends of social capital and GDP to predict the trends of SWB, on the same samples of countries.
• My thesis: social capital largely does
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Life satisfaction and GDP over at least 15 years (WVS-EVS data)
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Life satisfaction and membership over at least 15 years (WVS-EVS data)
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Groups and associations
• Social welfare service for elderly
• Religious organizations
• Education, arts, or cultural activities
• Labour unions
• Political parties
• Human rights
• Conservation, the environment, ecology, animal rights
• Youth work
• Professional associations
• Sports or recreation
• Women’s group
• Peace movement
• Organizations concerned with health
• Consumer groups
• Other groups
•Trivariate regressions do not alter these results
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First conclusion
• The data used on SWB are the same in both regressions on social capital and GDP: The sample and the time span do not vary
• Results suggest that in the long run (at least 15 years) GDP does not matter
• Social capital matters a lot
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From the long to the medium term
• What happens if we shorten the time span? • And what happens if we change the proxy of
social capital? • Social capital variable: trust • Data from the European Social Survey (4
waves every 2 years in 2002-2008)
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Life satisfaction and trust over the medium
run (6 years)
Y= -0.02 + 2.740***
N = 24
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Life satisfaction and GDP over the medium
run (6 years)
Y= -0.07 + 1.751*
N = 24
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•Tri-variate regressions of happiness or life
satisfaction, on trust and GDP
over 6 years
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Second conclusion
• In the medium run, social capital still matters a lot
• But GDP begins to become relevant!
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From the medium to the short run
• What happens if we further shorten the period?
• Will the results about GDP and social capital change?
• We use the same data as before: trust, ESS (2002-2008)
• In practice, instead than calculating the trend of SWB and trust in 2002-2008, we divide the time series in three sub-periods: 2002-2004, 2004-2006, 2006-2008
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Happiness and trust over the short run
(2 years)
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Happiness and GDP over the short run
(2 years)
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Medium and short run compared
Short run Medium run
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Summarizing: GDP
• Results are the same for happiness and life satisfaction
• GDP does not matter for SWB in the long run
• It begins to be important in the medium-term
• Its importance increases as the period shortens: Short run coefficients are greater and more significant than medium run coefficents
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Summarizing: social capital
• Social capital is strongly correlated to SWB in the long and the medium-term
• This correlation tends to evaporate in the short run: The coefficients are much smaller and less significant than the medium-term ones
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The trend of US happiness is predicted by forces that drive such a trend in opposite directions (Bartolini, Bilancini, Pugno 2011, GSS data)
Increase in income
Decline of social capital
Within countries evidence Declining Trend in US happiness (1975-2004): Why?
Social comparisons
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The trends of the various indicators document:
• An increase in: loneliness, sense of isolation, instability of families, generational cleavages, mistrust
• A decrese in: social contacts, honesty, solidarity, social participation, civic engagement
• A decrese in trust in institutions
The decline in social capital
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The decline of life satisfaction in China
Source: Bartolini and Sarracino 2012, WVS data
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Decomposition of the decline in life satisfaction in China, 1990-2007
Source: Bartolini and Sarracino 2012, WVS data
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The decline of life satisfaction in India
Source: Bartolini and Sarracino 2012, WVS data
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Decomposition of the decline in life satisfaction in India, 1990-2006
Source: Bartolini and Sarracino 2012, WVS data
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Private affluence
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Poverty of relationships
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Conclusion
We are facing a serious problem of sustainability of social resources which seems to be a major threat for well-being
Should we dedicate to “something else” - at least in part - some of the enormous attention and policy efforts that contemporary societies pour into economic growth?
The answer crucially depends on the time span considered
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AT: Austria HU: Hungary
BE: Belgium IE: Ireland
CH: Switzerland IL: Israel
CZ: Czech Republic NL: Netherlands
DE: Germany NO: Norway
DK: Denmark PL: Poland
EE: Estonia PT: Portugal
ES: Spain SE: Sweden
FI: Finland SI: Slovenia
FR: France SK: Slovakia
GB: Great Britain TR: Turkey
GR: Greece UA: Ukraina
Country acronyms in the ESS