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How does social capital contribute to health?

In: Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

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  • Sherman Folland

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This chapter introduces social capital concepts and explains the main hypotheses described in the economic approach. Health economists develop multivariate regressions where several of the independent variables are chosen to represent social capital. The dependent variable is chosen to represent health. Various covariates are included to adjust for extraneous factors.

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  • Sherman Folland, 2018. "How does social capital contribute to health?," Chapters, in: Sherman Folland & Eric Nauenberg (ed.), Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, chapter 2, pages 11-18, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Maria Alessandra Antonelli & Giorgia Marini, 2023. "Good health with good institutions. An empirical analysis for italian regions," Public Finance Research Papers 61, Istituto di Economia e Finanza, DSGE, Sapienza University of Rome.

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