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. In this work, we examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using the British Cohort Study …. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a …
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intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular …
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regional policy, top tax rates, inequality, housing and planning, crime, climate change and energy. …
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This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points: 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …
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Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education is a non-statutory school subject designed to facilitate the … delivery of a number of key competencies relevant to health, safety and wellbeing. As well as contributing to learning … classroom relating to physical, mental, sexual and emotional health and safety. This paper reviews a programme of research aimed …
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Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals' momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
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Happiness surveys typically ask people to say how they feel about their life experiences in retrospect, but smartphone technology makes it possible to collect responses on wellbeing 'in the moment'. The authors use this new 'Mappiness' data source to question whether we really are happy while we...
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely …
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This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US...
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At present six million people are suffering from clinical depression or anxiety disorders, but only a quarter of them are in treatment. NICE Guidelines prescribe the offer of evidence-based psychological therapy, but they are not implemented, due to lack of therapists within the NHS. We...
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