Social inclusion is an important goal for people with intellectual and developmental
disabilities, families, service providers, and policymakers; however, the concept of social …

Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (eg, goods,
and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Our study focuses on how public policy can effectively increase collaboration for innovation
among firms, entrepreneurs, research institutions and the public sector in a way that is easily …

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being …

Urban green spaces have been associated with the well-being of urban citizens. However,
there is limited evidence documenting those characteristics that green spaces must have to …

A generalized climate of distrust in political institutions is not functional to healthy
democracies. With the advent of social media, recent scholarly efforts attempt to better …

Non-uniform compliance with public policy by citizens can undermine the effectiveness of
government, particularly during crises. Mitigation policies intended to combat the novel …

We investigate whether the levels of social capital in US counties, as captured by strength of
civic norms and density of social networks in the counties, are systematically related to tax …

We find that firms headquartered in US counties with higher levels of social capital incur
lower bank loan spreads. This finding is robust to using organ donation as an alternative …