Friends with Health Benefits: Does Individual-level Social Capital Improve Health?

We contribute to the growing literature exploring the effect of social capital (SC) on health in several ways. First, we compare three different measures of SC and find remarkable consistency in their effects on health. Second, we use a long panel and account for the time persistence of individual h...

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Volume:	40
Main Author:	Susan L. Averett Laura M. Argys Jennifer C. Kohn
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 01.04.2014
published in:	Eastern economic journal Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 181 - 201
Data of publication:	20140401
ISSN:	0094-5056 1939-4632
EISSN:	1939-4632
Discipline:	Economics Public Health
Subjects:	Economic models Symposium on Social Capital and Health Economic indices Men Instrumental variables estimation Causality Social capital Estimators Health benefits Health care economics Unobservables Studies Human capital Economic theory Economic impact Public health Economic statistics
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