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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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Pathways to Transform Institutional (and Everyday) Racism in New Zealand
Heather Came,Tim McCreanor +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposed four pathways to transform racism in New Zealand: addressing historical racism, improving racial climate, pursuing equity through the application of systems change within public institutions, and mobilising civil society through collective impact.
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Introduction: Human Rights and Economic Inequality
TL;DR: This paper argued that human rights law and discourse have largely focused, at least in principle, on the promotion of status equality by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of numerous attributes including race, nationality, religion, and sex.
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Inequality, Poverty, and the Socialization of America's Youth for the Responsibilities of Citizenship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that having youth take on the responsibilities of citizenship is jeopardized by America's high level of income inequality and youth in poverty, and that these conditions block participation in the activities of citizenship by poor youth and their families, compared to wealthier citizens.
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Inequality and digitally mediated communication: divides, contradictions and consequences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between economic and social inequality and digitally mediated communication and highlight the limitations of the former approaches and the ways these are reflected in European policy.
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The influence of living conditions in early life on life satisfaction in old age.
TL;DR: Using pooled data from the second and third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, multilevel models show that early life living conditions have an influence on life satisfaction in old age and interaction effects between current and past living conditions show that adverse living conditions strengthen the effect of early life onLife satisfaction in later life.
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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.