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A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this relationship has been confirmed for many measures and data sets, few studies address how it is affected by concrete diseases. In this paper we assess for the British Household...
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The concept of "utility" is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological connotations to being a formal placeholder representing a person's preferences. In the accounts of the early utilitarians, it was a multidimensional measure that has been condensed during...
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Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper...
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Over the past two decades, the United Nations Security Council has responded more strongly to some humanitarian crises than to others. This variation in Security Council action raises the important question of what factors motivate United Nations intervention. This article offers a...
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We screen the mental well-being and psychological distress of 1165 refugees, migrants, internally displaced, and non-displaced people from Ukraine who seek psychological help online in Ukraine and across 24 countries of the European Union. We see that more than half of the respondents exhibit...
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Die Expertenkommission hat in ihrem aktuellen Gutachten Vorschläge zur Reform derGovernance-Strukturen zur Bewältigung der drängenden Transformationen formuliert.Dabei wird gezeigt, wie politisch gesetzte komplexe Ziele erreicht und dafür erforderlicheMaßnahmen umgesetzt werden können. Die...
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[Introduction:] The evaluation of policy interventions is an essential tool for reviewing and optimizing policies, especially in the field of research and innovation (R&I) policy (BMWi 2013). Policy evaluations involve systematic analyses to assess the design, implementation, and impact of...
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