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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 111 in total

  1. Is ‘employment during motherhood’ a ‘value changing experience’?

    Mireia Borrell-Porta, Valentina Contreras, and Joan Costa-Font

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Attitudes
    7. Sociology Of Households

  2. The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom

    Panka Bencsik, Timothy J. Halliday, and Bhaskar Mazumder

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

  3. Has monetary policy made you happier?

    Philip Bunn, Andrew G. Haldane, and Alice Pugh

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Finance
    5. Economic Policy

  4. People do not adapt to income changes: a re-evaluation of the dynamic effects of (reference) income on life satisfaction with GSOEP and UKHLS data

    Caspar Kaiser

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Well Being

  5. Mental health and reporting bias: analysis of the GHQ - 12

    Sarah Brown, Mark N. Harris, Preety Srivastava, et al.

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  6. The sad truth about happiness scales: empirical results

    Timothy N. Bond and Kevin Lang

    1. Research
    2. Well Being

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

    Felix FitzRoy and Michael Nolan

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

  8. Early childhood health shocks and adult wellbeing: evidence from wartime Britain

    Jeffrey C. Schiman, Robert Kaestner, and Anthony T. LoSasso

    1. Child Development
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis

  9. Does compulsory education really increase life satisfaction?

    Andrew E. Clark and SeEun Jung

    1. Education
    2. Well Being

  10. Can clean air make you happy? Examining the effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on life satisfaction

    Sarah J. Knight and Peter Howley

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Science And Technology
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  11. Social mobility and the wellbeing 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

  12. Diversity and neighbourhood satisfaction

    Monica Langella and Alan Manning

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Crime And Justice
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Well Being
    6. Societies
    7. Social Capital
    8. Social Behaviour
    9. Social Psychology

  13. The dynamic effects of retirement on well-being

    Dusanee Kesavayuth, Robert E. Rosenman, and Vasileios Zikos

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Labour Market
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  14. 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

  15. Financial strain in the United Kingdom

    Declan French

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Household Economics
    5. Debt: Indebtedness
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Economic Policy

  16. Paradox lost: disappearing female job satisfaction

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  17. Creating strong communities - measuring social sustainability in new housing development

    Tim Dixon and Saffron Woodcraft

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Development
    3. Town Planning
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Capital
    6. Housing Market

  18. Methods for analysing mortgage markets

    Darren Butterworth, Damien Fennell, Georgia Latsi, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Household Economics
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Housing Market

  19. The impact of a wage increase on mental health: evidence from the UK minimum wage

    Christoph Kronenberg, Rowena Jacobs, and Eugenio Zucchelli

    1. Wages And Earnings
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  20. Does teleworking affect housework division and improve the well-being of couples?

    Eleftherios Giovanis

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Sociology Of Households

  21. Relationship between health status and recycling rates: evidence from Great Britain

    Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Surveys

  22. How's life at home? New evidence on marriage and the set point for happiness

    Shawn Grover and John F. Helliwell

    1. Family Formation And Dissolution
    2. Well Being
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Sociology

  23. On the causal effect of religion on life satisfaction using a propensity score matching technique

    Roberto Zotti, Nino Speziale, and Cristian Barra

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

  24. Maternal working hours and the well-being of adolescent children

    Silvia Mendolia

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being

  25. Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being: a quantile approach

    Martin Binder and Alex Coad

    1. Unemployment
    2. Well Being

  26. Happy to stay: job satisfaction and retirement

    Andrew E. Clark, Kostas Mavromaras, and Zhang Wei

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  27. Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence from Britain

    Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  28. Wellbeing and civil society: estimating the value of volunteering using subjective wellbeing data

    Daniel Fujiwara, Paul Oroyemi, and Ewen McKinnon

    1. Human Capital
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies

  29. Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data: the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK

    Tobias Pfaff and Johannes Hirata

    1. Economics
    2. Well Being

  30. Value adult learning: comparing wellbeing valuation to contingent valuation

    Paul Dolan and Daniel Fujiwara

    1. Education
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies

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