This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive … ancestral country characteristics. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health …

This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …

This paper analyses the determinants of self-reported health in Ireland, conditioning selfreported health on a set of … socio-economic, labour market and social capital variables. Ireland has the highest self-reported health rate in Europe. The … results demonstrate statistically significant effects of income on self-reported health that are robust to different …