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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Infrastructure, Equity and Urban Planning: A Just Process for the Allocation of Benefits and Burdens
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is developed to illustrate the ways in which the planning of urban infrastructure might be used to establish more equitable outcomes, based upon a vertical axis along which procedural inputs influence the way the planning process allocates distributional outputs.
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Wage policy as an essential ingredient in a democratic society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that wage policy is an essential ingredient in the maintenance of democratic society for the following reasons: it raises the wages of those at the bottom, and thereby gives workers more independence and power as they are placed on a more equal footing with managers.
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Are There Inequities in Treatment of End-Stage Renal Disease in Sweden? A Longitudinal Register-Based Study on Socioeconomic Status-Related Access to Kidney Transplantation.
TL;DR: Overall, socioeconomic status-related inequities exist in access to kidney transplantation in Sweden and the possible mechanisms and strategies to mitigate these inequities are needed.
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New Urban Structural Change and Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Wages, Homeownership, and Health
TL;DR: New Urban Structural Change and Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Wages, Homeownership, and Health as mentioned in this paper, which is related to our work, is a recent work.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
TL;DR: In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives as discussed by the authors, which is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research.
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
TL;DR: The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer.
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Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Exploring Different Determinants Across Groups in Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries and show that only a small number of factors, such as openness, business climate, postcommunism, the number of chambers in parliament, Christian majority, and infant mortality robustly influence life satisfaction across countries.
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of fractionalization for the creation of social trust is examined and the determinants of trust can be divided into two categories: those affecting individuals' trust radii and those affecting social polarization.
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
John Gerring,Strom C. Thacker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that open international trade policies, low-inflation macroeconomic environments, and market-oriented property rights regimes promote human development across the world, even when controlling for countries' economic performance.