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Does generalized trust depend on income?

Alexeev, Michael V. - In: Economics letters 196 (2020), pp. 1-3

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The role of social capital in family firms to explain the innovation capabilities in recession time : an empirical study

Sanchez-Famoso, Valeriano; Maseda, Amaia - In: Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic crisis : …, (pp. 77-84). 2014

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Sustaining Resilience Through Local Connectedness Among Sojourn Students

Cheung, Chau-kiu; Yue, Xiao - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 3, pp. 785-800

Resilience is desirable for promotion as a resource for international students to sustain adjustment and withstand stress. A yet uncertain way for the promotion is the student’s connectedness with host or local people. To ascertain the benefit of local connectedness, this study surveyed 215...

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Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse

Cruwys, Tegan; Dingle, Genevieve A.; Haslam, Catherine; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 179-186

A growing body of research suggests that a lack of social connectedness is strongly related to current depression and … increases vulnerability to future depression. However, few studies speak to the potential benefits of fostering social … connectedness among persons already depressed or to the protective properties of this for future depression trajectories. We suggest …

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Social disorganization/social fragmentation and risk of depression among older people in Japan: Multilevel investigation of indices of social distance

Takagi, Daisuke; Kondo, Katsunori; Kondo, Naoki; Cable, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013) C, pp. 81-89

of the study participants were assessed using the short version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15). We also …

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Understanding resilience in armed conflict: Social resources and mental health of children in Burundi

Hall, Brian J.; Tol, Wietse A.; Jordans, Mark J.D.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 121-128

. We examined the longitudinal association between cognitive social capital and mental health (depression and posttraumatic … included the Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) (Birleson, 1981), the Child Posttraumatic Symptom Scale (Foa et al., 2001 … decreased depression between T1 and T2 (B = −.22, p < .001) and T2 and T3 (β = −.25, p < .001), and with functional impairment …

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Poor health reporting: Do poor South Africans underestimate their health needs?

Rossouw, Laura - 2015

Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups. Using the World Health Organization study on global...

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Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?

d'Uva, Teresa Bago; van Doorslaer, Eddy; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2006

Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by...

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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K.; Wang, Yang - 2016

This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...

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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?

Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, J. Catherine; Strain, Michael R. - 2017

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...

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