Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being

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Experimental And Quasi Experimental Designs For Research

A detailed review of the education sector in Australia as in the data provided by the 2006 edition of the OECD's annual publication, 'Education at a Glance' is presented. While the data has shown that in almost all OECD countries educational attainment levels are on the rise, with countries showing impressive gains in university qualifications, it also reveals that a large of share of young people still do not complete secondary school, which remains a baseline for successful entry into the labour market.

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Education at a Glance

https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/download/14795/13847

Men and Women of the Corporation

Equality of Educational Opportunity.

Indicators of subjective well-being have gained only limited acceptance as tools for the social-scientific analysis of human welfare, mainly because they seem insensitive to variations in the socio-economic context. However, this apparent insensitivity has been established by research which has been limited in various ways. Using data on life satisfaction for 33 European societies which goes some way to transcending these limits, this paper identifies linkages between subjective well-being and socio-economic conditions which are both strong and suggestive of important insights about national and cross-national relativities in human welfare. Populations in the rich parts of Europe have high and relatively equal life satisfaction, while those in the poorer parts of Europe have low and unequal life satisfaction. Social inequalities within rich European societies seem to have little effect on life satisfaction but they have significant effects within poor European societies. Inequalities between European soci...

Do subjective indicators measure welfare? Evidence from 33 European societies

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/50114/1/576825433.pdf

The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland

Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students

Key Findings from the report include:
•	There are just over 56,400 nine-year-olds in Ireland. Just over 82% of them lived in two-parent households with about one-in-five living in lone-parent families.
•	Two-parent families are almost three times more likely than single-parent families to be in the highest family income groups.
•	The majority of children lived in families in which the parents adopted what is generally regard to be the optimal parenting style – the authoritative style. This combines high control with high support and is usually associated with the best outcomes for children. 
•	Almost all nine-year-olds (98%) were reported by their mother to be in good health. 73% are described as Very Healthy and a further 25% as Healthy, but a few minor problems.
•	Children from Professional/Managerial backgrounds were significantly more likely to be rated as healthy (76%) compared with those from Semi-skilled/Unskilled manual backgrounds (69%). 
•	Using international definitions and thresholds 74% of children were described as being of normal weight, 19% were overweight and 7% were obese.
•	Children’s weight and obesity was strongly linked to that of their parents. Where both parents were overweight or obese, 33% of children were overweight or obese. This compares with 11% of children in households where neither parent was overweight or obese.
•	Rates of GP visits are highest amongst girls and amongst those with full medical card coverage. 
•	A very large majority of nine-year-olds (93%) said they liked school at least ‘sometimes’. 53% of children said they ‘always’ liked their teacher and 41% said they ‘sometimes’ like them. 
•	The child’s academic performance, as measured by the standard reading and mathematics tests, varied by social class, income and maternal education, with those from the higher classes, higher income, and higher educated groups achieving higher scores on the tests. 
•	40% of 9-year-olds reported being a victim of bullying in the past year, and boys and girls experienced similar rates of victimisation. 
•	A large proportion of the children’s mothers were unaware of their children’s experiences of bullying. Although 40% of children reported that they were the victim of bullying only 23% of their mothers reported this to be the case. Either parents don’t know about the problem or they define bullying differently to their children.

Growing up in Ireland. National longitudinal study of children: the lives of 9-year-olds. .

This paper examines gender differentiation in early labour market outcomes across European countries. In spite of the fact that the educational attainment of women has now surpassed that of men in many countries, differences persist in the type of educational courses taken by young women and men. Countries differ in the extent of educational segregation by gender but certain regularities are evident, with health/welfare, education and arts courses dominated by women and engineering courses dominated by men. Countries with higher levels of educational segregation by gender are found to have higher levels of occupational segregation by gender. However, marked gender differences are still apparent between women and men who have received the same kind of education, regardless of the country considered.

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Emer Smyth

Papers

Do subjective indicators measure welfare? Evidence from 33 European societies

The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland

Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students

Growing up in Ireland. National longitudinal study of children: the lives of 9-year-olds. .

Gender differentiation and early labour market integration across Europe