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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 172 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. Do unions cause job dissatisfaction? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the United Kingdom

    Ioulia Bessa, Andy Charlwood, and Danat Valizade

    1. Pensions
    2. Psychology
    3. Sociology Of Labour
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being

  3. 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

  4. Later retirement, job strain, and health: evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

    Ludovico Carrino, Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Older People
    3. Pensions
    4. Pensions
    5. Psychology
    6. Psychology
    7. Labour Market
    8. Labour Market
    9. Economics
    10. Economics
    11. Public Policy
    12. Public Policy
    13. Well Being
    14. Well Being
    15. Health
    16. Health
    17. Life Course Analysis
    18. Life Course Analysis

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. The change and stability of NEO scores over six-years: a British study and a short review

    Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Life Course Analysis

  9. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  10. Assessing the relationships between young adults’ travel and use of the internet over time

    Guoqiang Wu, Jinhyun Hong, and Piyushimita Thakuriah

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Psychology
    4. Young People
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Travel
    7. Social Behaviour

  11. Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Arts
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Mobility

  12. Giving behaviours and social cohesion: how people who 'give' make better communities

    Lorna Zischka

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  13. Happy days: does volunteering make us happier or is it that happier people volunteer?

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  14. The benefits of volunteering: a summary of work from 2014 to 2019

    Ricky N. Lawton and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  15. Tracing the gender gap in political interest over the life span: a panel analysis

    Marta Fraile and Irene Sánchez-Vítores

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Social Behaviour

  16. 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

  17. World happiness report 2019

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    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Government
    4. Well Being
    5. Societies
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health

  18. Happiness and voting behaviour

    George Ward

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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  22. 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

  23. Curb your enthusiasm: optimistic entrepreneurs earn less

    Christopher Dawson, David de Meza, Andrew Henley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Management: Business
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Wages And Earnings

  24. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. The Big Five personality traits and partisanship in England

    Toke Aidt and Christopher Rauh

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Psychology
    4. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    5. Life Course Analysis

  28. The good childhood report 2018

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    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being

  29. 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

  30. 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

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