Social Capital for Healthy Aging in the EU: a Regional Inequality Analysis

Ambra Poggi () and Enza Simeone ()
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Ambra Poggi: Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turin, Torino, Italy

No 97, Working papers from Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche), University of Torino

Abstract: Social capital is a key factor in creating a supportive environment to healthy aging in the EU. Social capital is an individual resource embedded in one's social networks. Collective-owed regional level resources (e.g. sharing norms, institutional settings, etc.) can be mobilised by the individuals to build up their own social capital. Our aim is to investigate regional differences in the level of social capital held on average by older adults as well as the complexity of the relationship between individual social capital and regional level resources. Our analysis is twofold. First, using graphical methods and logistic nonlinear models, we investigate changes in social capital levels in specific groups of regions after the Covid-19 pandemic, changes that we interpret as the consequences of the different Covidmanagement strategies implemented in the EU regions. Second, using econometric methods, we investigate the determinants of social capital. We find that disparities in (unobserved) regional level resources explain a significant share of social capital inequality among the elderly

Keywords: Social Capital; Regional Resources; Inequality; Mixed-effects Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D30 I14 O57 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2025-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eec and nep-ure
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