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 …

-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. …

Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …

Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …

change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …