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Freeman, Emily; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

debates on sexuality in the gerontological literature by moving discussion beyond the presentation of continued sexuality as …

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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents

Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and …

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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …

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Is happiness a predictor of election results?

Ward, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Is it in politicians’ interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population’s SWB or “happiness”. This paper investigates the extent to which citizens...

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Respect

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Becker (1974) introduced to modern economics the idea that others care about what others think about them and derived many useful insights from this assumption. But he did not provide a very complete description of the general equilibrium of an economy in which people both demand respect from...

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A general method for valuing non-market goods using wellbeing data: three-stage wellbeing valuation

Fujiwara, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Subjective wellbeing data is becoming increasingly popular in economics research. The wellbeing valuation approach uses wellbeing data instead of data gleaned from preferences to attach monetary values to non-market goods. This method could be an important alternative to preference-based...

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Famine, suicide and photovoltaics: narratives from the Greek crisis

Knight, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The Greek crisis has become the most eminent example of neoliberal economic meltdown over the past five years. In towns across Greece people try to come to terms with drastic changes in their everyday lives and grapple with the the complex mixture of politics, economy, history and culture that...

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the …

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The objective benefits of subjective well-being

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Diener, Ed; Tay, Louis; Xuereb, Cody - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to survey the 'hard' evidence on the effects of subjective well-being. In doing so, we complement the evidence on the determinants of well-being by showing that human well-being also affects outcomes of interest such as health, income, and social behaviour. Generally, we...

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Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood

Kiernan, Kathleen E.; Huerta, Maria Carmen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes...

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