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Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis

Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017

The idea that humans especially females are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female...

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Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

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Talk Therapy and Human Capital in Adolescence: Evidence from a Low-Resource Setting

Edmonds, Eric V.; Mukherjee, Priya; Prakash, Nikhilesh; … - 2025

We evaluate the impact of a therapy intervention on Nepali adolescents at risk of dropping out of school. Our randomized controlled trial is the largest of its kind (N = 1,707) and is novel in that participation does not require a preexisting diagnosis. Participation was high: 89 percent of...

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Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

Using seven recent data sets, covering 51 countries and 1.3 million randomly sampled people, the paper examines the pattern of psychological well-being from approximately age 20 to age 90. Two conceptual approaches to this issue are possible. Despite what has been argued in the literature,...

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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional evidence. We conclude broadly on the author's side. Strikingly, Americans appear to be in...

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...

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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual’s experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839297

The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during … months. Also, there was a systematic increase in total inequality in the Likert GHQ-12 score. However, measures of relative … socioeconomic inequality have not increased. A Shapley-Shorrocks decomposition analysis shows that during the peak of the first wave …

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK: An Update

Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …

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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...

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