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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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Effectiveness of individualised support measures in the dropout prevention model (DPM) in Serbian schools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of individualised support measures within the Dropout Prevention Model (DPM) after two years of implementation in 10 pilot schools in the seven most vulnerable municipalities in Serbia.
Using Recidivism Rate as the Sole Indicator of Prison-Based Rehabilitation Program Usefulness: Lessons for 21 st Century Corrections Policy
TL;DR: This article argued that in addition to offender recidivism rate, adequate attention should be given to other important considerations like academic, employment signaling, institutional function, and social values of prison-based education programs in any determination of the usefulness of the programs.
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The Power of Social Artefacts
Rosaria Conte,Mario Paolucci +1 more
TL;DR: The complexity of complex social systems is characterized by multiple ontological levels with multi-directional connections, proceeding not only from the micro to the macroscopic levels but also back from the macro to the microscopic as mentioned in this paper.
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A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures
TL;DR: In this article, two new measures, the ratio of persons in the lowest income decile relative to the number in the highest, in a given country, are shown to have a negative and significant effect on both happiness and life satisfaction.
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The effective design, implementation and enforcement of socio-economic equality duties: lessons from the pupil premium
TL;DR: The UK has extremely high levels of socio-economic inequality, which are predicted to rise over the next five years as discussed by the authors, and traditionally, equality law was seen as inappropriate to address socioeconomic inequality.
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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.