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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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Antidepressants and age

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011

health ; depression ; happiness ; Easterlin paradox …

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Emotional prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010

This paper argues - in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress - that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...

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Does high home-ownership impair the labor market?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2013

This study explores the hypothesis that high home-ownership damages the labor market. We show that rises in the home-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a doubling of the rate of home-ownership in a...

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Antidepressants for economists and business-school researchers : an introduction and review

Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...

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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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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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