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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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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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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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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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Tasting Freedom: happiness, religion and economic transition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect all equally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contributes positively to … source of happiness for the religious. The impact of economic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The main …

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Economic growth evens-out happiness: evidence from six surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within … goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin …

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Does better rail access improve homeowners’ happiness?: evidence based on micro surveys in Beijing

Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

using reported happiness data. This paper uses a difference-in-difference method to empirically measure the impact of rail … access on homeowners’ happiness. My identification strategy takes advantage of micro happiness survey data conducted before … significantly heterogeneity in the effects from better rail access on homeowners’ happiness with respect to different dimensions of …

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