Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health

doi:10.1002/hec.3131

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题名	Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health
作者	Ho，Cheuk Yin
发表日期	2016
发表期刊	Health Economics (United Kingdom)
ISSN/eISSN	1057-9230
卷号	25 期号:1 页码:91-100
摘要	Summary This paper estimates the effect of an individual's number of friends on own health outcomes. The identification strategy exploits the panel structure of the friendship data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to estimate individual fixed effects in the likelihood of friendship formation and then uses the fixed effect estimates as a control function in a model relating health outcomes to number of friends. Empirical results show that having a larger number of friends improves physical and mental health and also lowers the frequency of smoking cigarettes. Specifically, making one more friend increases an individual's general health measure by 6.6% of a standard deviation. This suggests that accumulating social capital through friendship interactions is beneficial to health.
关键词	friendships health social capital
DOI	10.1002/hec.3131
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语种	英语English
Scopus入藏号	2-s2.0-84954290046
引用统计	被引频次：31[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://repository.uic.edu.cn/handle/39GCC9TT/6430
专题	北师香港浸会大学
通讯作者	Ho，Cheuk Yin
作者单位	Division of Business and Management,Beijing Normal University,Hong Kong Baptist University,United International College,Tangjiawan, Zhuhai,28 Jinfeng Road,China
第一作者单位	北师香港浸会大学
通讯作者单位	北师香港浸会大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ho，Cheuk Yin. Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health[J]. Health Economics (United Kingdom), 2016, 25(1): 91-100.
APA	Ho，Cheuk Yin. (2016). Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health. Health Economics (United Kingdom), 25(1), 91-100.
MLA	Ho，Cheuk Yin."Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health". Health Economics (United Kingdom) 25.1(2016): 91-100.