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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 …
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We extend the literature on the deep determinants of economic development by focusing on life expectancy, instead of income per capita, as an indicator of economic development, and by examining the role of informal, as well as formal, institutions. Our empirical results suggest that formal and...
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We report associations between social capital and health among 82,482 adults in a national cohort of Open University … students residing throughout Thailand.After adjusting for covariates, poor self-assessed health was positively associated with … psychological health was also associated with low social trust (OR = 2.52; 95% CI 2.41-2.64) and low social support (OR = 1.80; 95 …
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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 …
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trust, are associated with improvements in individual health status. In this study we employ these measures, together with … health. We find that for all three measures, the association with health status persists after carefully adjusting for … salutary effect for the poor. Our findings generate both support for the social capital and health hypothesis and a number of …
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of social capital on individual self-reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States … consistently estimate the impact of social capital on health. We attempt to circumvent the endogeneity problems by using … of trust is positively and significantly correlated with health, either in pooling estimation or when we rely on IV …
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