The Relationship Between Social Capital And Health In China

Xindong Xue and W. Reed ()

Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: This paper uses the 2005 and 2006 China General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the relationship between social capital and health in China. Using four separate samples totalling over 18,000 respondents and some methodological innovations that are new to the social capital literature, we identify social trust, social relationships, and social networks as robust correlates of self-reported health. The estimated sizes of the social capital effects are economically important, being of the same order of magnitude as those associated with age and income. We are unable to find evidence that social participation is related to self-reported health. Further, while women generally report poorer health than men, we find no evidence of gender differences in the social capital-health relationship.

Keywords: Social capital; trust; self-reported health; China; ordered logistic regression; heteroskedastic ordered logistic regression; interaction effects. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I1 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 page
Date: 2015-03-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-hea, nep-soc and nep-tra
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Working Paper: The Relationship between Social Capital and Health in China (2016)
Working Paper: The relationship between social capital and health in China (2016)
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