Neighborhood differences in social capital: A compositional artifact or a contextual construct?

Health and Place

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-44

  Subramanian, S V ^a   Lochner, Kimberly A ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual differences; Multilevel methods; Neighborhood clusters; Social capital; Trust; US

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

AGE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MARRIAGE; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0344406977     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(02)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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