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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 46 in total

  1. Is cohabitation as good as marriage for people’s subjective well-being? Longitudinal evidence on happiness and life satisfaction in the British Household Panel Survey

    Morten Blekesaune

    1. Psychology
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Sociology Of Households

  2. The 2005 London terror attacks: an investigation of changes in psychological wellbeing and social capital pre- and post-attacks (2003-07) - a UK panel study

    Giuseppe N. Giordano and Martin Lindström

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Psychology

  3. Job insecurity and risk of diabetes: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

    Jane E. Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  4. 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

  5. ‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

    Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  6. Health and employment: commentary

    Stephen Bevan

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  7. Changes in employment status: does poor health matter?

    Don J. Webber, Dominic Page, Michail Veliziotis, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  8. Unemployment is bad for health: so what's the role for social policy?

    Daniel Sage

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health

  9. Non-standard work: what’s it worth? Comparing alternative measures of workers’ marginal willingness to pay

    Mark L. Bryan and Andrea Geraci

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being

  10. Short- and long-run estimates of the local effects of retirement on health

    Eduardo Fe and Bruce Hollingsworth

    1. Older People
    2. Time Use
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  11. Economic growth evens out happiness: evidence from six surveys

    Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, and Claudia Senik

    1. Economics
    2. Well Being

  12. Does daily sunshine make you happy? Subjective measures of well-being and the weather

    Franz Buscha

    1. Psychology
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Well Being

  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. Association of volunteering with mental well-being: a lifecourse analysis of a national population-based longitudinal study in the UK

    Faiza Tabassum, John Mohan, and Peter Smith

    1. Well Being
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Behaviour

  15. Health in a hurry: the impact of rush hour commuting on our health and wellbeing

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    1. Time Use
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Commuting
    5. Travel

  16. The good childhood report 2016

    Larissa Pople and Gwyther Rees

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Psychology

  17. The role of family orientations in shaping the effect of fertility on subjective well-being: a propensity score matching approach

    Nicoletta Balbo and Bruno Arpino

    1. Demography
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households

  18. It takes two to tango: couples’ happiness and childbearing

    Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino, and Nicoletta Balbo

    1. Psychology
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Well Being

  19. Children’s sex and the happiness of parents

    Rachel Margolis and Mikko Myrskyla

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being

  20. Unions and the economic basis of attitudes

    Alex Bryson and Michael White

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Well Being

  21. '…Do it with joy!' – Subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations

    Martin Binder

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  22. The Oxford handbook of well-being and public policy

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being

  23. Share capitalism and worker wellbeing

    Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Richard B. Freeman, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Well Being

  24. Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007–2010: or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

    Antje Mertens and Miriam Beblo

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being

  25. A better politics: how government can make us happier

    Danny Dorling

    1. Politics
    2. Philosophy
    3. Well Being
    4. Societies
    5. Health

  26. Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis

    Rebecca J. Bentley, David Pevalin, Emma Baker, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Household Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Housing Market

  27. A sociological analysis of associations between the family and well-being: roles, responsibilities, and relationships -PhD thesis-

    Debbie Hart

    1. Well Being
    2. Sociology Of Households
    3. Social Psychology

  28. 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

  29. The link between ‘giving’ behaviours and a healthy social environment -PhD thesis-

    Lorna Zischka

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

  30. Pinning down subjective valuations: a well-being-analysis approach to eminent domain

    Maria M. Maciá

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Government
    5. Well Being
    6. Finance
    7. Housing Market

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