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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 278 in total

  1. Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study

    Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Nunzia Nappo

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health

  2. Does volunteering make us happier, or are happier people more likely to volunteer? Addressing the problem of reverse causality when estimating the wellbeing impacts of volunteering

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, Will Watt, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Behaviour

  3. Underemployment and psychological distress: propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

    Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly, and Liam Delaney

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  4. ‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes: subjective versus revealed preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  5. Happiness and voting: evidence from four decades of elections in Europe

    George Ward

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Public Policy
    5. Government
    6. Well Being
    7. Finance

  6. Older people and Social Quality – what difference does income make?

    Liam Foster, Mark Tomlinson, and Alan Walker

    1. Older People
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Poverty
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Well Being

  7. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  8. Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis

    Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Social Psychology

  9. Gender-specific effects of commuting and relocation on a couple's social life

    Natascha Nisic and Stefanie Kley

    1. Social Networks
    2. Demography
    3. Migration
    4. Well Being
    5. Commuting

  10. The restorative effect of work after unemployment: an intraindividual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment

    Ying Zhou, Min Zou, Stephen A. Woods, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis

  11. Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in Great Britain

    Patrick Präg and Lindsay Richards

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility
    5. Biology

  12. Are doctors getting the balance right? Treatment for depression in England, 1983 to 2017

    John Simister

    1. Medicine
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Surveys

  13. Distributional consequences of technological change: worker-level evidence

    Thomas Kurer and Aina Gallego

    1. Politics
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being

  14. Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data

    Amy Clair and Amanda Hughes

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Housing Market
    4. Biology

  15. Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health

    Daniel Kopasker, Catia Montagna, and Keith A. Bender

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  16. Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK

    Felix R. FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  17. Will a shrink make you richer? Gender differences in the effects of psychotherapy on labour efficiency

    Guido Cozzi, Silvia Galli, and Noemi Mantovan

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being

  18. Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in Great Britain

    Patrick Präg and Lindsay Richards

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility
    5. Biology

  19. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  20. Smile or die: can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

    Martin Binder and Guido Buenstorf

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  21. Paradox lost: the disappearing female job satisfaction premium

    Colin P. Green, John S. Heywood, Parvinder Kler, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  22. The impact of public smoking bans on well-being externalities: evidence from a policy experiment

    Miaoqing Yang and Eugenio Zucchelli

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Law And Legislation
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  23. Place and preference effects on the association between mental health and internal migration within Great Britain

    Sam Wilding, David Martin, and Graham Moon

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Migration
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  24. Unemployment, temporary work, and subjective well-being: the gendered effect of spousal labor market insecurity

    Hande Inanc

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  25. Factors affecting psychological well-being: evidence from two nationally representative surveys

    G. Oskrochi, Ahmed Bani-Mustafa, and Y. Oskrochi

    1. Psychology
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Finance

  26. Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales

    Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

    1. Public Opinion
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Well Being
    8. Social Attitudes
    9. Race Relations

  27. Home-ownership as a social norm and positional good: subjective wellbeing evidence from panel data

    Chris Foye, David Clapham, and Tommaso Gabrieli

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Housing Market

  28. Bidirectional associations between psychological distress and hearing problems: an 18-year longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey

    Raphael M. Herr, Jos A. Bosch, Töres Theorell, et al.

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  29. Ethnic variations in mental health among 10–15-year-olds living in England and Wales: the impact of neighbourhood characteristics and parental behaviour

    Kenisha Russell Jonsson, Irina Vartanova, and Marita Södergren

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Demography
    4. Young People
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Sociology Of Households

  30. Social mobility and the well-being of individuals

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Capital
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Social Mobility

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