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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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Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences
TL;DR: In four studies, correlation and experimental evidence is found that subjective status motivates shifts in support for redistributive policies along with the ideological principles that justify them.
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Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women
Ronald L. Simons,Man-Kit Lei,Steven R. H. Beach,Robert A. Philibert,Carolyn E. Cutrona,Frederick X. Gibbons,Ashley B. Barr +6 more
TL;DR: Findings support the view that chronic financial pressures associated with low income exert a weathering effect that results in premature aging.
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Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System:
TL;DR: In this paper, a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature is built, and the concept of structural sexism and structural racism is developed. But, it is not discussed in this paper.
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Financial Development and Income Inequality: A Panel Data Approach
Sebastian Jauch,Sebastian Watzka +1 more
TL;DR: This paper 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 to 2008 and found that financial development has a positive effect on income inequality.
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A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality
TL;DR: The misuse of Gross Domestic Product as a measure of public wellbeing results from the idea that economic growth is always synonymous with enhanced quality of life, disregarding the fact that the economy profits from natural, social, and human capital.
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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.