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high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood leads to long-term (10 to 15 year) improvements in adult physical and mental … neighborhood poverty (13 percentage points) increases subjective well-being by an amount equal to the gap in subjective well …,000. Subjective well-being is more strongly affected by changes in neighborhood economic disadvantage than racial segregation, which …
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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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Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are...
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