Corruption is hidden action which distorts allocations of resources away from competitive outcomes. Hence the detection of such actions is both dicult yet important. In many economic contexts, agent actions are unobservable by principals and hence detection is dicult; sport offers a...

This paper aims to consider whether there is a link between youth happiness levels and adult life satisfaction. Our results are unequivocal that such a link exists both because demographic and socio-economic conditions are persistent over a lifetime and also because there is a persistence in...

F<sc>aggian</sc> A., C<sc>omunian</sc> R., J<sc>ewell</sc> S. and K<sc>elly</sc> U. Bohemian graduates in the UK: disciplines and location determinants of creative careers, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The human capital and regional economic development literature has become increasingly interested in the role of the ‘Bohemian...

The recent change in funding structure in the UK higher education system has fuelled an animated debate about the role that arts and humanities (A<i>&</i>H) subjects play not only within higher education but more broadly in the society and the economy. The debate has engaged with a variety of arguments...

Policies to encourage pro-environmental behaviors must be based on an understanding of the factors that affect it: the literature has identified a role for information, attitudes, moral norms and several socio-demographic characteristics. Pro-environmental behaviors are however not homogeneous...

This paper investigates the extent to which life satisfaction is influenced by personality utilising longitudinal data collected by the BHPS. We test whether there is some happiness trait or propensity to be happy that influences the life satisfaction of adults by including a personality trait...

Recent UK changes in the number of students entering higher education, and in the nature of financial support, highlight the complexity of students' choices about human capital investments. Today's students have to focus not on the relatively narrow issue of how much academic effort to invest,...