Caring Alone? Social Capital and the Mental Health of Caregivers
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Informal care; social capital; mental health;JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2016-08-21 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2016-08-21 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2016-08-21 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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