Social capital in the surrounding adult community lowers student dropout rates.

Evidence

The low dropout rates of the Catholic schools, the absence of low dropout rates in the other private schools, and the independent effect of frequency of religious attendance all provide evidence of the importance of social capital outside the school, in the adult community surrounding it, for this outcome of education. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 198

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s analytical frame of Coleman-style network closure, here shown working in the community’s favor rather than against state institutions. — connects to: Religious communities’ intergenerational closure replicates Catholic-school dropout benefits. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 199; Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 200; Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231 (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Gives the positive control for the reader’s Coleman point about closure — a case where dense community closure benefits, not sabotages, an institution.

Related

• Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. (similarity 0.92)
• Religious communities’ intergenerational closure replicates Catholic-school dropout benefits. (similarity 0.90)
• Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources. (similarity 0.85)
• Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute (similarity 0.84)
• The dropout advantage of private schools persists when controlling for student backgrounds (similarity 0.82)
• Catholic schools have far lower dropout rates than public or private schools. (similarity 0.82)
• Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education (similarity 0.82)
• Religious service attendance predicts lower dropout independent of school religious affiliation. (similarity 0.80)
• Informal social ties predict school achievement better than formal civic memberships do. (similarity 0.80)
• Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital. (similarity 0.79)
• Family social capital components combine such that disadvantaged structure nearly quadruples dropout rates. (similarity 0.79)
• Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital (similarity 0.79)
• Adult-to-child ratio measures family social capital available for schooling. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. #expands (0.85) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 200
• Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute #corroborates (0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231
• Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education #expands (0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 146