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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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Financial development and income inequality: a panel data approach
Sebastian Jauch,Sebastian Watzka +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of up to 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960-2008.
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Global trends in ultraprocessed food and drink product sales and their association with adult body mass index trajectories
Stefanie Vandevijvere,Lindsay M. Jaacks,Carlos Augusto Monteiro,Jean-Claude Moubarac,Martin Girling‐Butcher,Arier C Lee,An Pan,James Bentham,Boyd Swinburn +8 more
TL;DR: Increases in UPFD volume sales/capita were positively associated with population‐level BMI trajectories and associations with adult body mass index (BMI) trajectories.
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The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical context
Samuel Alexander,Simon Ussher +1 more
TL;DR: Overconsumption in affluent societies is the root or contributing cause of many of the world's most pressing problems, including environmental degradation, global poverty, peak oil and consumer mal... as discussed by the authors.
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Annual Research Review: The neurobiology and physiology of resilience and adaptation across the life course
TL;DR: The capacity of the brain and body to withstand challenges to stability can be considered as "resilience", and under the right circumstances, the brain can re-enter plastic states, and negative outcomes may be mitigated, even later in life.
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High economic inequality leads higher-income individuals to be less generous
TL;DR: This research finds that the tendency for higher- Income individuals to be less generous pertains only when inequality is high, challenging the view that higher-income individuals are necessarily more selfish, and suggesting a previously undocumented way in which inequitable resource distributions undermine collective welfare.
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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.