Dear Sarah,

thank you very much for this interesting question! For the moment, just a brief follow-up question here to get a clearer understanding of what you mean: You mention "social capital" as well as "social networks" in relation to poverty. Is what you're looking for US/Canadian case studies on the interdependence between a person's (/a family's/a community's/a neighborhood's?) degree of being integrated into wider social networks (= this person's/family's etc. "social capital") and absolute/relative poverty levels?

Thanks,

Julius

Julius yes. I teach in Baltimore and am working on a social mobiltity- related book.

Daniel P. Hawes, Social Capital, Racial Context, and Incarcerations in the American States, State Politics & Policy Quarterly

Vol. 17, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2017), pp. 393-417 (25 pages)

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Dear Sarah, additionally, the following works may help.

Chul-Joo Lee, Daniel Kim, A Comparative Analysis of the Validity of US State- and County-Level Social Capital Measures and Their Associations with Population Health, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 111, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 307-326

You will find both of them in Jstor.

Dear Sarah,

perhaps Prof. Michele Lamont of Harvard University could be of help or potentially offer some guidance to find further pertinent studies? I just stumbeld across a lecture announcement of hers here and thought of you and your book project in Baltimore...

All the best,

Julius

Julius, thank you for that suggestion! I've actually just reached out to her about another matter. I'll ask.

Oh wonderful, Sarah! If you can provide me with an e-mail address of yours (simply drop me a line to [email protected]), I'd be happy to share with you the announcement of Michele Lamont's upcoming lecture. Perhaps it can provide some further inspiration for your book project or further hints at aspects about which to talk about with Michele?