Social capital and health across European countries

Bas van Groezen, R. Jadoenandansing and Giacomo Pasini

Applied Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 18, issue 12, 1167-1170

Abstract: In this article we compare the effect of trust and civic participation on self-assessed health across 10 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 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.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2010.528353

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