I thought the new issue of Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
by the Royal Society would be of interest to the list...

Issue: Volume 359, Number 1449 / September 29, 2004

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/app/home/issue.asp?wasp=4h83emxvul1rvpyxvcby&referrer=parent&backto=journal,2,102;linkingpublicationresults,1:102022,1
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John F. Helliwell A1 and Robert D. Putnam A2

A1 Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, 997-1873 East
Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada A2 Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract: Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US
Benchmark Survey and a comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate
equations designed to explore the social context of subjective evaluations
of well-being, of happiness, and of health. Social capital, as measured by
the strength of family, neighbourhood, religious and community ties, is
found to support both physical health and subjective well-being.

Our new evidence confirms that social capital is strongly linked to
subjective well-being through many independent channels and in several
different forms. Marriage and family, ties to friends and neighbours,
workplace ties, civic engagement (both individually and collectively),
trustworthiness and trust: all appear independently and robustly related to
happiness and life satisfaction, both directly and through their impact on
health.

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