title: Structural social capital and health in Italy.
abstract: This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n=46,868). Our measure of social capital is the frequency of meetings with friends. Based on IV and bivariate probit estimates, we find that individuals who meet friends every day or more time times a week are approximately 11-16% more likely to report good health.
authors: Department of Business and Economics, University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Health, Econometrics and Data Group, University of York, United Kingdom. Electronic address: damiano.fiorillo@uniparthenope.it.
authors: Damiano
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authors: Fiorillo
authors: Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation. Electronic address: fabio.sabatini@uniroma1.it.
authors: Fabio
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authors: Sabatini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D057566:Self Report; D066270:Social Capital; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Health; Italy; Social capital; Social interactions; Statistical matching