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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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Inequalities on the labour market in Estonia during the Great Recession
TL;DR: In this article, a system of inequalities in the labour market is developed and the development of these inequalities during the financial crisis in Estonia is analysed, and the aim of the thesis is to ascertain what changes have occurred in inequalities and which labour market groups have been most vulnerable since the onset of the recession in Estonia.
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Health promotion and crime prevention: recognising broader synergies
Janette Young,Rick Sarre +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the synergies between health promotion and crime prevention by considering a range of parallels between them and found that crime prevention and health promotion share several parallel interests, agendas, systemic locations and shared population foci.
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Biblical warnings to the 'rich' and the challenge of contemporary affluence
Clive Beed,Cara Beed +1 more
TL;DR: Beed and Cara Beed as discussed by the authors argue that these admonitions were directed to whom they were stated and not to the middle-class affluent, and that such admonitions are still relevant to identify the materially poor today and to assist them out of poverty.
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Why is wage inequality so high in the United States? Pitching cognitive skills against institutions (once again)
TL;DR: The authors found that skills play an important role in explaining differences in wage inequality between the United States and other OECD countries, while differences in the demand for and supply of skills can explain just over a quarter.
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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.