This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …

Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …

The paper investigates whether social relations are associated with the health of workers after controlling for … Heckman selection model is estimated from the worker sample, employing both self-reported and objective health measures using …-SILC). Results show that social relations at the individual level are positively correlated with self-perceived health, negatively …

In this paper, we examine the old-age security hypothesis according to which parents rear children because they expect …, children are usually viewed as a potential source of income and as a time-related support in old age. However, investing in … children remains risky. By focusing on uncertainty about the parental consumption during old age, we show that there exists a …

pensions. Given the children externality and in the absence of corrective policy, the fertility rate chosen in market economy … children externality which leads to a sub optimal demography. We have shown that an optimal demographic allocation exists and …

pensions. Given the children externality and in the absence of corrective policy, the fertility rate chosen in market economy … children externality which leads to a sub optimal demography. We have shown that an optimal demographic allocation exists and …

children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove … that equal transfers among children are expected under perfect information, while the second-best contract implies risk …