[…] For many, the conditions required to live a quality life are being eroded. The thirteen papers contained in this volume explore a broad range of factors that impact on quality of life worldwide-globalization, regionalization, recently regained political autonomy, population migration, factors that contribute to health and illness, shortages in food and agriculture, the importance […]

[…] this idea by examining the dynamics of life-satisfaction transmission in a 6-year longitudinal study of 4,162 British couples. Results show that there was a significant and lasting impact of one spouse’s life-satisfaction from the previous year on change in the other spouse’s life-satisfaction from the previous year to the current year. There was evidence […]

This paper examines the impact of maternity leave legislation on first birth timing in Great Britain. When maternity leave was introduced in Great Britain in 1976, the eligibility requirement for full-time employees was to have been working for the same employer for at least 2 years. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey […]

[…] Future Foundation has been commissioned to undertake a study covering a century of saving – 1957, 2007 and 2057. This study combines historical depth – illustrating the impact of the huge social and economic changes of the past half-century upon savings behaviour, and long-term futurology – illustrating that changes we will see over the […]

[…] for a model for the whole EU-25, thereby reducing the amount of effort that must be made in harmonising data from diverse national sources, in understanding the impact of remaining cross-country differences on model results, as well as in negotiating access to many datasets and ensuring that diverse access conditions are met. Nevertheless, the […]

[…] many hours it entails. Third, we typically found no cross-partner effects on various indicators of satisfaction. The partner’s health or work status typically have no statistically significant impact on an individual’s own well-being. Fourth, the presence of children brings no increase in life satisfaction for men – and an increase in the life satisfaction […]

[…] quantification of childcare using time use data. I conclude that the childcare produced by households constitutes around 16% of GDP. As a complement to this valuation the impact that parent’s activities have on children’s activities is assessed in one chapter. This idea here is to get a substantive sense that what parents do, is […]

[…] well-being using twelve waves (1991/92 – 2002/2003) of the British Household Panel Survey. While one branch of the literature suggests that “atypical” contractual conditions have a significant impact on health and well-being, another suggests that health is damaged by adverse working conditions. As far as we are aware, previous studies have not explicitly considered […]