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Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study

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  • Damiano Fiorillo
  • Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera
  • Nunzia Nappo

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The link between social relations and psychological wellbeing is well established in sociological and mental health studies. Since the beginning of the 2000s, this link has been garnering new attention and interest in economic and public health studies. Almost twenty years of empirical studies testing this relationship have established contrasting results for two main reasons. First, the majority of the studies are based on cross-sectional data, leaving out endogeneity and heterogeneity problems; second, mental health measurements are often discordant from each other. This study investigates the relationship between structural social capital and individual self-rated mental health using five waves of the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1995 (unbalanced panel N = 44,684). We take into account the heterogeneity and endogeneity issues and implement fixed effects and lag-dependent variable estimations. Moreover, we used different methodologies to measure mental health as a robustness check. Our findings show the existence of a negative relationship between being both a member of and active in an organization and worse mental health. In addition, being active within an organization in the previous year has a negative effect on worse mental health in the following year.

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  • Damiano Fiorillo & Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera & Nunzia Nappo, 2020. "Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(19), pages 2079-2095, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:52:y:2020:i:19:p:2079-2095
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1682508
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    1. Xianhua Dai & Nian Gu, 2021. "The Impact of Social Capital on Mental Health: Evidence from the China Family Panel Survey," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(1), pages 1-19, December.
    2. Lei Wu & Chuanjian Li & Yang Gao, 2022. "Regional agricultural cooperatives and subjective wellbeing of rural households in China," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(S2), pages 138-158, November.

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