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pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …
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associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … from the Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Surveys (SHeS) we show that its correlates are similar in a … number of ways to those for SWB, and that it is highly correlated with SWB metrics, as well as self-assessed health. Second …
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on individuals' health and wellbeing, there is relatively little evidence of their impact on sleep. Using data for over 3 …
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-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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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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Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing …
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