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Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations

Macchia, Lucía; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links between physical pain and the state of the economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain...

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Do people become healthier after being promoted?

Boyce, Christopher J. (contributor); … - 2008

as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with … good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …. -- Health ; Whitehall studies ; GHQ ; locus of control ; job satisfaction ; mortality ; status …

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009

. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …

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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being : evidence from the USA

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010

A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions – asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel – such as "how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4?" Yet there is little...

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Mortality and immortality

Rablen, Matthew D. (contributor); … - 2007

It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control...

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Hypertension and happiness across nations

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings

O'Donnell, Gus; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Ecological Economics

Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data...

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How does marriage affect physical and psychological health? : A survey of the longitudinal evidence

Wilson, Christopher (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from … marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. -- mortality ; health ; marriage ; happiness …

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Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing? : a longitudinal study of 18,000 adults

Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its … measures of SF-36 mental health and psychological well-being, four main conclusions emerge. First, the young are especially … envy today is a powerful predictor of worse SF-36 mental health and well-being in the future. A change from the lowest to …

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