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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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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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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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