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Social capital and health across European countries

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Bas van Groezen ()
Rashmi Jadoenandansing
Giacomo Pasini

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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.

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Paper provided by Utrecht School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 09-04.

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I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
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