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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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Self-Reported Psychosomatic Complaints In Swedish Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults Living in Rural and Urban Areas: An Internet-Based Survey.
TL;DR: Higher levels of psychosomatic complaints appear to correlate with living in major city areas in comparison with minor city/rural areas, and Surveys launched on the Internet could be a useful method in sampling data regardingPsychosomatic health for this age group.
Examining the maldistribution in teacher quality: A spatial analysis of the distribution of credentialed educators in California schools
TL;DR: In this article, exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and spatial regression analysis are used to test for spatial autocorrelation in the distribution of credentialed teachers throughout California's unified school districts.
Modernism in School Reform: Promoting Private over Public Good.
TL;DR: This paper used a model devised by a Finnish scholar to demonstrate that these reforms are indeed modernist, and that privatization and standardized tests are the primary tactics used to force schools to comply with this vision for schooling.
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Modeling Democracy: Is youth “participation” enough?
Dana Fusco,Michael Heathfield +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a range of models that have emerged to conceptualize youth work from 1978 to the present in Europe, Australia and the United States are reviewed, noting a common focus on a linear transfer of power from adults to young people.
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Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools – the Trinity Access approach
TL;DR: Trinity Access (TA) as discussed by the authors is a post-primary initiative, in the authors' university, that offers programs for students, teachers and schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage.
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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.