Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy
利用意大利10年区域数据，研究社会资本（友谊质量、社会活动参与、献血者比例）对患者跨区域就医的影响，发现缺乏合作预期（以献血者比例衡量）会推动患者流出。
Using a 10-year (2006–15) regional dataset on hospital discharges, we estimate the determinants of Italian regional outflow rates while also including three proxies for social capital: the quality of friendships, the involvement in social activities and the ratio of blood donors to the population. We find a significant push effect from the lack of social capital intended as generalized expectation of cooperative behaviour (proxied by blood donors); this does not hold true for the other two proxies of social capital. The lack of a cultural context where norms of reciprocity matter may reduce regions’ ability to retain their patients.