An exploratory study of associations between social capital and selfassessed health in Norway

No 2007:9, HERO Online Working Paper Series from University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme

Abstract: The objective of this study is to estimate associations between social capital and health when other factors are controlled for. Data from the survey of level-of-living conditions by Statistics Norway are merged with data from several other sources. The merged files combine data at the individual level with data that describe indicators of community-level social capital related to each person’s county of residence. Both cross-sectional and panel data are used. We find that one indicator of community-level social capital — voting participation in local elections — was positively associated with self-assessed health in the cross-sectional study and in the panel data study. While we find that religious activity at the community-level has a positive effect in the cross-sectional survey and a non-significant effect in the panel survey, we find that sports organizations have a negative effect on health in the cross-sectional survey and a non-significant effect in the panel study. This result indicates that sports organizations represent bonding social capital.

Keywords: social capital; health; Norway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2009-06-03
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Journal Article: An exploratory study of associations between social capital and self-assessed health in Norway (2008)
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