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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 racial disparity in breast cancer mortality in the 25 largest cities in the United States.
TL;DR: This is the first study that is able to locate which examines city-level racial disparities in breast cancer mortality and the results are of concern for several cities and for the field in general.
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Inequality and anti-globalization backlash by political parties
TL;DR: This paper found that income inequality tends to increase anti-globalization positions of parties, net of pro-globalisation positions, an effect that does not significantly differ across party families or levels of actual globalization.
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Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?
Michelle S. Phelps,Devah Pager +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the factors associated with the rise and decline in state-level incarceration rates from 1980 through 2013, and found evidence for four key stories in explaining the prison decline: crime, budgets, politics, and inequality.
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Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that higher levels of income inequality might lead to lower rates of human capital investment among low-income individuals, which would offset any potential "aspirational" effect coming from higher educational wage premiums.
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Penal controls and social controls: Toward a theory of American penal exceptionalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that to explain American penal exceptionalism, we have to consider America's exceptional levels of punishment and violence and disorder together with their exceptional level of violence.
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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.