Schultz Jennifer, O'Brien A Maureen, Tadesse Bedassa
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812, United States.
Soc Sci Med. 2008 Aug;67(4):606-17. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.002. Epub 2008 Jun 13.
Using data from the 2006 Social Capital Community Survey in Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, USA, we investigate associations between individual social capital measures (attitudes on trust, formal group involvement, informal socializing, organized group interaction, social support and volunteer activity) and self-rated health after controlling for individual and economic characteristics. In particular, we address issues of social capital as an endogenous determinant of self-reported health using instrumental variables probit estimation. After accounting for the endogeneity of these various measures of individual social capital, we find that individual social capital is a significant predictor of self-rated health.
利用美国明尼苏达州德卢斯市和威斯康星州苏必利尔市2006年社会资本社区调查的数据，在控制了个人和经济特征之后，我们研究了个体社会资本指标（对信任的态度、正式团体参与、非正式社交、有组织团体互动、社会支持和志愿活动）与自评健康之间的关联。特别是，我们使用工具变量概率估计法来解决社会资本作为自我报告健康的内生决定因素的问题。在考虑了这些个体社会资本不同指标的内生性之后，我们发现个体社会资本是自评健康的一个重要预测指标。
