@article{fe88e74bec5e4152bfbbffd49558390c,
title = "Wal-Mart and social capital",
abstract = "The impacts of Big Box Stores such as Wal-Mart to local social and civic capital were studied. A conceptual model of the processes leading to changes in social capital was proposed. Into this model, the number of Wal-Mart stores in 1987 and the predicted change in the number of stores during the 1990s decade were introduced. Overall, results show that the presence of Wal-Mart depresses social capital stocks in local communities, measured at the country-level.",
author = "Goetz, \{Stephan J.\} and Anil Rupasingha",
note = "Funding Information: This study was supported by the Mexican Ministry of Health (SSA); the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT-Mexico project \# 3786P-M9607; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; the Departamento del Distrito Federal (DDF), Mexico; the Centro F{\textquoteright}anamericano de Ecologia Humana y Salud, Mexico (ECO); and the National Center for Environmental HealthKenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; and the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and the NIH/Fogarty International Training Program in Occupational and Environmental Health, award TW00623. Submitted for publication April 7, 1998; revised; accepted for publication December 7, 1998. Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. Mauricio Hernandez-Avila, Centro de lnvestigaciones en Salud Poblacional, lnstituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Av Universidad 655, Col Santa Maria Ahuacatitlan, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico (Email: mhernan@ insp3.insp.m\textasciitilde{}).",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00949.x",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "88",
pages = "1304--1310",
journal = "American Journal of Agricultural Economics",
issn = "0002-9092",
publisher = "John Wiley \& Sons Inc.",
number = "5",
}