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 …

of China by empirically estimating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 … parity terms. This relationship does not hold in the case of waste gas from production or solid waste. The estimation results …

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 …

-perceived health. …

The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis … relationship between formal volunteering and self-perceived health. …

the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Using an economy-wide, global computable general equilibrium model, this paper …

The rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the last 30 years has generated many …