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1Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
We analyse the effect of contextual-level social capital on health status in a sample of 26 transitional countries of Central and South Europe, Mongolia, and the former Soviet Union for 2006-2010 (N = 51 911). Contextual-level social capital is conceptualized as country-level social trust, while health status is conceptualized as self-rated health. We use ordinary least squares and instrumental variable regressions to address endogeneity and especially to rule out reverse causality. Both instrumental variable and ordinary least squares regressions suggest a strong positive effect of country-level trust on health. This finding is consistent for the whole sample as well as separate regional estimations.
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