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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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The spaces between: Parents' perceptions of neighborhood cohesion and child well-being
Erika Y. Niwa,Jacob Shane +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined how parents' perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy (social cohesion and informal social control) shape their school-age children and adolescents' participation in extracurricular activities and perceived school satisfaction.
The economics of happiness and psychology of wealth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors verify a few hypotheses on relationship between income and psychological well-being at micro and macro level and the main factor which differentiates the pattern of the relationship is level of income.
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Whither Income Inequalities
TL;DR: Some major trends in world income inequalities and relevant economic trends are reviewed in this paper, where a reversal of the growing income divergence between North and South after over half a millennium, especially in the last two centuries, is discussed.
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Understanding Health Disparities
TL;DR: A broad, dynamic, interactive social systems approach is suggested for understanding how inequalities are formed, maintained, and change as individuals move through the life course.
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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.