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The role of perceived costs and perceived benefits in the relationship between personality and risk-related choices

Soane, Emma; Dewberry, Chris; Narendran, Sunitha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper considers how perceptions of costs and benefits can influence the association between personality and risky …; recreational; social) using the DOSPERT and measured personality using the NEO PI-R. Results from structural equation modelling … showed that personality had a direct effect on risky choice behaviour in four domains (social, ethical, gambling and …

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Regulators as agents: modelling personality and power as evidence is brokered to support decisions on environmental risk

Davies, G.J.; Kendall, G.; Soane, E.; Li, J.; Rocks, S.A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

personality and power relationships that influence the confidence that recipients may place in the sufficiency of evidence and … assigned personality traits to agents, to explore their receptivity to evidence. Agents with ‘aggressor’ personality sets were … most able to imbue fellow agents with enhanced receptivity (with ‘avoider’ personality sets less so) and clear confidence …

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for...

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Social comparisons, health and well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...

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Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions

Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning with the setting of targets for particular indicators. The targets suggested...

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An exploration of childhood antecedents of female adult malaise in two British birth cohorts: combining Bayesian model averaging and recursive partitioning

Hobcraft, John; Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We use information from two prospective British birth cohort studies to explore the antecedents of adult malaise, an indicator of incipient depression. These studies include a wealth of information on childhood circumstances, behaviour, test scores and family background, measured several times...

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Can the retirement-consumption puzzle be resolved?: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.

Smith, Sarah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey to shed further light on the fall in spending at retirement (the “retirement-consumption puzzle”). Comparing food spending for men retiring involuntarily early (through ill health or redundancy) with spending for those who retire...

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …

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Hooray for GDP!

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Should raising the growth rate of GDP per capita be a policy goal of governments in general, and of the British government in particular? Many people would say no, for the following reasons: 1) GDP is hopelessly flawed as a measure of welfare; 2) Growing GDP is pointless since most people don’t...

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Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has escalated in recent years. This study contributes to the literature by examining how SWB reports differ by mode of survey administration. Using data from the 2011 Annual Population Survey in the UK, we find that individuals...

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