While we know much about the economic impact of immigration for host-country residents, we know comparatively little about the psychological impact. By linking a large geo-referenced household survey with local-level immigration data, we examine the impact of rising inflows of migrants into...

This paper studies the relationship between inflows of migrants into local areas and the self-reported well-being of natives. We document a negative association between inflows of migrants and the mental health of natives, but we uncover no significant relationship for life satisfaction. These...

Existing agri-environment subsidy schemes have suffered from poor uptake. The prospect of the UK’s exit from the EU means that agricultural financial subsidies will likely need to be redesigned. This paper leverages insights from prospect theory to test three different aspects of policy...

The importance of better understanding ways to improve mental health, and subjective well-being more generally, is an issue that is gaining increased prominence among public health professionals in the Western world. Cognitive behavioural therapy and pharmaceutical treatments are the primary...

Previous research has demonstrated that unemployment has an adverse effect on mental well-being but that peer effects as captured by the unemployment of neighbours can moderate these negative impacts. The idea being that contact with others who are also unemployed can help the unemployed feel...

Much recent research suggests that immigration has had little, if any, negative impact on the labour market outcomes of natives. In this study we focus on ascertaining the effect of immigration on subjective as opposed to objective indicators of native well-being. Our analytical approach...

Based on semi-structured interviews with 54 distinct actors in the UK and Canada, we identify a range of internal psychological orientations that are common (albeit to varying degrees) in both case study regions that, when taken together, provide a lens through which on-farm decisions relating...

Using both parametric and non-parametric methods, we find significant well-being differences between those who report that they have fully recovered from a health condition and a control group consisting of individuals never diagnosed with those health conditions. This suggests that individuals...

There is an emerging body of evidence to suggest that nudges can motivate behaviour change. Thequestion as to whether using nudges in tandem “crowds out” the marginal effectiveness of each one has attracted little attention. Using a randomised survey experiment consisting of 1800 farmers, we...