[…] explanations for previous findings, inform the adaptation discussion, and generate new understanding regarding well-being. An event – no matter when entered into – must have a contemporaneous impact on either the life of an individual or an individual’s perception of their life (or both) for it to be reflected in self-reported life satisfaction scores. […]

[…] disproportional concentrations at the highest and lowest skill levels – it is especially the large group of immigrants with little formal education that raises concerns about the impact of immigration on social inequality. Whether their educational disadvantage will persist and shape stratification in the over the long run is determined by the degree of […]

[…] aspects of religiosity; moreover, having a strong religious identity such as, at the same time, belonging to any religion, attending religious services once a week or more and believing that religion makes a great difference in life, has a high causal impact on subjective well-being. Our findings are robust to different aspects of life satisfaction.

[…] life affecting a young person’s well-being will differ from those of the rest of the adult population, and those that are the same may differ in their impact. The framework for measuring national well-being indicators is grouped into ten domains. These domains of well-being are consistent at all ages. Most of the national well-being […]

[…] effects of a guaranteed minimum income in Greece, using the European tax-benefit model EUROMOD, in terms of: fiscal costs, participation (number of persons eligible for support), anti-poverty impact (poverty lines, headcount rates and poverty gaps indicators, reference population by age, by gender, by area, and by tenure), and work incentives (marginal effective tax rates). […]

[…] a special type of survey that applies questionnaires repeatedly to the same respondents. In this PhD I investigate if and how collecting information using different modes can impact data quality in panel studies. Chapters 2 and 3 investigate how a sequential telephone – face-to-face mixed mode design can bias reliability, validity and estimates of […]

This work is a contribution toward identifying the impact of “local” institutions on development-related outcomes both at the level of villages as well as the levels of households based on primary data collected by ourselves. We randomly selected 36 villages in the states of Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh—12 in each of these states—in […]

This paper uses the UK module of EUROMOD to examine the likely impact of Universal Credit (UC) on the incomes and work incentives of families containing NMW workers (“NMW families”). It in part updates previous work done for the Low Pay Commission (Brewer, May and Phillips, 2009). The analysis was completed after the 2012 […]