Abstract

FERNANDEZ-DURAN, Juan José; GREGORIO-DOMINGUEZ, M. Mercedes  and  MERINO SANZ, María. Capital social de hogares de escasos recursos en la Ciudad de México. El trimestre econ [online]. 2012, vol.79, n.316, pp.905-928. ISSN 2448-718X.

Social capital can be defined as the capacity of individuals or groups to obtain benefits by participating in social networks (Robinson, Siles and Schmid and, Flores and Rello in Atria and Siles eds. 2003). In this paper, we use data from the second round of the Panel of Low Income Households in the Delegación Álvaro Obregón, México, D.F. (PAO) to fit regression models with instrumental variables in order to identify significant proxy variables related to the social capital in social networks to explain the percentage of income that households in PAO spend in food. Also, we present the results of a factor analysis to identify the variables in PAO that are related with the dimensions of trust, social networks and accepted norms that are main elements of the definition of social capital.

Keywords : capital social; pobreza urbana; análisis factorial; variables instrumentales; mínimos cuadrados bietápicos.