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The deep historical roots of comparative cross-country health status
Vu, Trung; Owen, Dorian; Haug, Alfred Albert; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279240
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Social capital as a determinant of population health outcomes : a global perspective
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Ajaz, Tahseen - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 1, pp. 52-77
This study contributes to the health literature by decomposing health outcomes into three dimensions that are physical … health, mental health and well-being of individuals. Where physical health is measured using life expectancy, infant … mortality and self-rated health indicators while mental health is measured using stress index and addition of smoking in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934054
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Makroökonomik der Seele? : Über den Zusammenhang von Ungleichheit, Sozialkapital und Gesundheit
Grözinger, Gerd - In: Ökonomik und Sozialwissenschaft : Ansichten eines in …, (pp. 119-153). 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001681242
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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271793
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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review
Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of … illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317155
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875
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Community-based health insurance and social capital : a review
Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of … illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621798
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Social connectedness and generalized trust : a longitudinal perspective
Sturgis, Patrick; Patulny, Roger; Allum, Nick; Buscha, Franz - 2012
Social, or 'generalized', trust refers to beliefs that people hold about how other people in society will in general act towards them. Can people in general be trusted? Or must one be careful in dealing with people? Research on the antecedents of social trust has typically relied on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626094
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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How does social capital reduce the size of the shadow economy?
Lee, Dongwon - In: Global economic review 42 (2013) 3, pp. 251-268
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