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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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Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics
TL;DR: Evidence that trauma and its aftermath are fundamentally linked to social position, sociopolitical capital, and power is reviewed using a social identity approach to conclude that post‐traumatic stress is fundamentally about power, positionality, and politics.
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Sources of sibling similarity : Status attainment in the Netherlands during modernization
TL;DR: In this article, Antonie Knigge used digitized information from Dutch marriage certificates from the nineteenth and early 20th century to measure lack of social mobility not only with the conventional indicator of the similarity in occupational status between parents and children, but also with a more encompassing indicator, the similarity of occupational status among siblings.
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Measuring the Success of a Pipeline Program to Increase Nursing Workforce Diversity
TL;DR: To understand changes in knowledge and opinions of underserved American Indian and Hispanic high school students after attending a 2-week summer pipeline program using and testing a pre/postsurvey, psychometric analysis indicated poor model fit for a 1-factor model for the total scale and majority of subscales.
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The crisis before the crisis: the ‘problems of modern society’ and the OECD, 1968–74
TL;DR: The authors analysed debates within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the so-called "problems of modern society" from 1968 to 1974, which led to a new impetus to recast the formerly dominant quantitative-growth paradigm in terms of environmental policies and qualitative growth.
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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.