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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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Macromarketing and the Systems Imperative
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors lay out a case for systems research in macromarketing, the use of methamphetamines, and their interactions with marketing, markets and society.
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Inequality is in the air: contextual psychosocial effects of power and social class.
Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón,Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez,Efraín García-Sánchez,Katerina Petkanopoulou,Guillermo B. Willis +4 more
TL;DR: It is argued that perceived inequality and ideologies of inequality (e.g. economic system justification or social dominance orientation) might moderate the two described effects of social class and power inequalities.
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Teaching Tech Together : How to Make Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community around Them
TL;DR: The authors presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them, including the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups.
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GINI Country Report: Growing Inequalities and their Impacts in the United States
TL;DR: This article found that inequality is high and rising in the United States, but the great majority of the increase was captured by the top end of the distribution since the mid-1990s and the top 5 to 10 percent overall over the past 40 years.
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Interplay of subjective and objective economic well-being on the mental health of Norwegian adolescents
Tormod Bøe,Tormod Bøe,Keith J. Petrie,Børge Sivertsen,Børge Sivertsen,Mari Hysing,Mari Hysing +6 more
TL;DR: Moderate associations are shown between perceived economic well-being and household income and that the influence of perceived economicWell-being on conduct- and peer problems depended on the level of household income, while symptoms of depression explained some of this association.
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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.