Social Capital and Human Mortality: Explaining the Rural Paradox with County-Level Mortality Data

摘要: The “rural paradox” refers to standardized mortality rates in rural areas that are unexpectedly low view of well-known economic and infrastructural disadvantages there. We explore this paradox by incorporating social capital, a promising explanatory factor has seldom been incorporated into residential research. do so while being attentive spatial dependence, statistical problem often ignored Analyzing data for counties the contiguous United States, we find that: (1) is confirmed with both metro/non-metro rural-urban continuum codes, (2) capital significantly reduces impacts residence on after controlling race/ethnicity socioeconomic covariates, (3) attenuation greater when perspective imposed analysis, (4) negatively associated at county level, (5) dependence strongly evidence. A approach necessary county-level analyses such as ours yield unbiased estimates optimal model fit.