Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n = 50,618). Our measure of social capital is the frequency of meetings … with friends. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find that higher levels of social capital increase …