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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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Income Inequality across Australian Regions during the Mining Boom: 2001–11
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impacts of mining on income inequality in sub-State regions of Australia and found that, on average, income inequality increased by around 4.8 percent in mining regions, compared to 8.7 percent in the average non-mining regions.
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How foraging works: Uncertainty magnifies food-seeking motivation.
Patrick Anselme,Onur Güntürkün +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the occasional and unavoidable absence of food rewards has motivational effects (called incentive hope) that facilitate foraging effort, and it is shown that this hypothesis is computationally tenable, leading forager in an unpredictable environment to consume more food items and to have higher long-term energy storage than foragers in a predictable environment.
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Prevalence of Nine Established Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Southern European Population
TL;DR: While men were more exposed to most risk factors, the clearer associations between SEP and risk factors among women support that their adoption of particular healthy behaviors is more dependent on material and symbolic conditions.
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Quality of Life: Factors Determining its Measurement Complexity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined factors determining ąuality of life and complexity of their measurement, and provided insights into opportunities for the development and implementation of ąual of life studies.
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Income Inequality Affects the Psychological Health of Only the People Facing Scarcity.
TL;DR: It is argued that economic vulnerability is better captured by a financial-scarcity measure and hypothesize that income inequality primarily impairs the psychological health of people facing scarcity.
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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.