Social capital and health across European countries

Bas van Groezen, R. Jadoenandansing and Giacomo Pasini

No 09-04, Working Papers from Utrecht School of Economics

Abstract: We compare the effect of trust and civic participation on self-assessed health across ten European countries. We find that, after controlling for a rich set of socio-economic characteristics, for actual health status and for health-related behaviours, trust has a significantly positive effect on perceived health in Sweden and in Germany, but none in the other countries. Civic participation does have a positive and quite similar effect in all countries. Our conclusion is that they measure two different aspects of social capital that must be treated separately.

Keywords: Panel Data; Wage Distribution; Inequality; Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04
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