Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36771 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4886
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses data from the British National Child Development Study to investigate the relationship between social interaction and participation in the stock market through holding stocks and/or shares at the individual level. In accordance with the existing literature, the results reveal that a positive relationship exists between social interaction and stock market participation, when both are measured concurrently. Furthermore, this relationship prevails across a range of measures of social interaction and social capital. In addition, we make a potentially important contribution to the existing literature by exploiting the panel nature of the data in order to explore the robustness of the cross-sectional findings. We find that the positive relationship between stock market participation and social interaction prevails within a fixed effects logit framework, which controls for time invariant unobserved effects.
Subjects: 
Social capital
social interaction
stock market participation
JEL: 
D12
D14
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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