Social capital and self-reported general and mental health in nine Former Soviet Union countries
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Social capital and self-reported general and mental health in nine Former Soviet Union countries.
Social capital has been proposed as a potentially important contributor to health, yet most of the existing research tends to ignore the challenge of assessing causality in this relationship. We deal with this issue by employing various instrumental variable estimation techniques. We apply the analysis to a set of nine former Soviet countries, using a unique multi-country household survey speci...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics, Policy and Law
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1744-1331,1744-134X
DOI: 10.1017/s1744133113000121