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Are happiness and productivity lower among university students with newly-divorced parents? : an experimental approach

Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

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How should peer-review panels behave?

Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012

Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...

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The elite brain drain

Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...

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Money and mental wellbeing : a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins

Gardner, Jonathan (contributor); … - 2006

One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins of between Đ1000 and Đ120,000 (that is, up to approximately U.S. $200,000). When compared to...

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Daughters and left-wing voting

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon -- nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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Do people become healthier after being promoted?

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

This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence 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...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...

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The wage curve : an entry written for the new palgrave, 2nd edition

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve a downward-sloping relationship between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1. -- wage...

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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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