Fiorillo Damiano, Sabatini Fabio
Department of Business and Economics, University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Health, Econometrics and Data Group, University of York, United Kingdom.
Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation.
Econ Hum Biol. 2015 Apr;17:129-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.02.004. Epub 2015 Mar 5.
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.
本文首次对意大利社会资本与健康之间的因果关系进行了实证评估。该分析采用了意大利统计局对具有代表性的人口样本(n = 46,868)进行的2000年家庭多用途调查数据。我们衡量社会资本的指标是与朋友见面的频率。基于工具变量法和双变量概率单位估计,我们发现,每天或每周多次与朋友见面的个体报告健康良好的可能性大约高出11%-16%。