State Social Capital and Individual Health Status

Jennifer Mellor () and Jeffrey Milyo

No 310, Working Papers from Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

Abstract: We explore the relationship between individual health status and three separate measures of state social capital using data from the Current Population Survey, the General Social Survey and Putnam (2000). We find that state social capital is significantly associated with health status, even after controlling for several relevant individual characteristics and for unobserved sources of regional variation in health status. Nevertheless, the substantive importance of state social capital for individual health status is quite limited.

Keywords: health status; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-09
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