Sun, Bowen.

The effect of community organisations’ participation and existence on self-rated health in China: evidence from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [electronic resource] / Bowen Sun &Xue-song Li. - pp. 182-202.

Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study cross-sectional survey in 2011 with an 80.51% response rate, an endogenous logit model is adopted to account for the relationship between social capital and self-rated health and the heterogeneity from gender, age and marital status on individual self-rated health status. Consequently, social capital at both individual and community levels is found to be positively correlated with better subjective self-rated health status. Furthermore, the social capital’s marginal effect of the male, high-income groups, the married are larger than that of the female, rural residents, low-income groups and the divorced. In addition, interclass correlation value from the partition of the fixed and random effect of social capital is significantly, ranging from 3.0 to 5.49%, indicating a significant proportion of the total variance in self-rated health that can be explained by community-level differences.

社會資本通常被定義為社會規範、信任、社會網絡與互惠准則的 集合。本文基於中國健康養老與追蹤調查數據(CHARLS)在2011年 的截面數據,利用內生logit模型探討了”社區公共基礎設施的存 在”與”個體社區活動參與”等社會資本指標對自評健康的影響效 應,進一步探討了社會資本健康促進效應的性別、年齡以及婚姻 狀態異質性特征。最終,考慮到數據源的嵌套結構,本文基於多 層次混合效應Probit模型對社會資本的健康促進效應進行了穩 健性估計。結果發現,個體社會資本與社區社會資本的提高都顯 著改善了自評健康水平;而且,男性、高收入以及結婚的樣本中 社會資本的邊際效應更高。與此同時,年齡越高,則個體自評健 康越差。最後,多層次估計模型顯示,社區層面社會資本的差異 對自評健康水平的貢獻在3.0% 至 5.49%區間波動。


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Individual social capital, community social capital, self-rated health, endogeneity problem, CHARLS

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