The analysis of social indicators and the analysis of life quality are very important in order to know, in time, the changes of the main social and economic phenomena that characterize a society. To monitor the social system is a priority of modern societies because it helps to identify in time...

Kültürel sermaye son yıllarda sıkça ekonomik kalkınma, sosyal refah, toplumsal bütünleşme konuları ile birlikte düşünülmektedir. Kültürel sermaye birikimi ve ekonomik kalkınma arasında anlamlı bir bağ olduğu görüşü iddia edilmektedir. Bazı ülkelerde temelde ekonomik...

Determining what influences mood is important for theories of emotion and research on subjective well-being. We consider three sets of factors: activities in which people are engaged; individual differences; and incidental variables that capture when mood is measured, e.g., time-of-day. These...

We use Financial Optimum Portfolio Theory to obtain Optimum Development (Policy) Portfolios for Sub Saharan African (SSA) Countries. We estimate a model linking public expenditures on health, education and general government expenditures to the Human Development Index (HDI). Given the...

This paper examines peer effects in adolescent cannabis use from several different reference groups, exploiting survey data that have many desirable properties and have not previously been used for this purpose. Treating the school grade as the reference group, and using both neighbourhood fixed...

How has wellbeing evolved over time and across regions? How does the West compare to the Rest? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing has taken place since 1870. The absolute gap between...

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments....

This paper reports on the efforts carried out by England and Scotland to promote the widespread use of telehealthcare within Personal Health Systems (PHS) for patients with chronic conditions. In each setting, it explains the political drive, the trends in empowering patients, the needs for...

Il saggio intende mostrare la rilevanza della relazione che intercorre tra le disparità di reddito e le disuguaglianze sociali a livello regionale in una prospettiva secondo cui a) le sole variabili economiche non rendono efficacemente conto del livello di sviluppo di una comunità e b) tali...