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  • Single Motherhood, Employment, or Social Assistance: Why Are U.S. Women Poorer Than Women in other Affluent Nations?

    In: Journal of Poverty 6 (2002), 2, 61-80 | Karen Christopher
  • Welfare State Regimes and Mothers' Poverty

    In: Social Politics 9 (2002), 1, 60-86 | Karen Christopher
  • Gender inequality in poverty in affluent nations: the role of single motherhood and the state

    In: Koen Vleminckx, Timothy M. Smeeding , Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations
    Bristol: The Policy Press
    199-219
    | Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross, Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children

    Height is positively associated with educational attainment. We investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that taller children are more likely to enroll in Gymnasium, the most academic secondary school track, and that primary school teachers provide more favorable school track decisions to taller students. We find that a 1 cm increase in height ...

    In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011), 4, 407-418 | Francesco Cinnirella, Marc Piopiunik, Joachim Winter
  • Origins of happiness: Evidence and policy implications

    Understanding the key determinants of people’s life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This column discusses evidence from survey data on Australia, Britain, Germany, and the US which indicate that the things that matter most are people’s social relationships and their mental and physical health; and that the best predictor of an adult’s life satisfaction ...

    Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)'s Policy Portal, 2016, | Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee, George Ward
  • A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

    In: Applied Economics Quarterly 52 (2006), 4, 291-308 | Andrew E. Clark
  • Work, Jobs and Well-being across the Millennium

    This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem to give increasing importance to the more “social” aspects of jobs: useful and helpful jobs. The central ...

    Paris: OECD, 2009,
    (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 83)
    | Andrew E. Clark
  • The Organisational Commitment of Workers in OECD Countries

    The degree to which workers identify with their firms, and how hard they are willing to work for them, would seem to be key variables for the understanding of both firm productivity and individual labour-market outcomes. This paper uses repeated crosssection ISSP data from 1997 and 2005 to consider three of measures of worker commitment. There are enormous cross-country differences in these commitment ...

    In: Management revue 22 (2011), 1, 8-27 | Andrew E. Clark
  • Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

    The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social activities, rendering conclusions regarding ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2012,
    (SOEPpapers 452)
    | Andrew E. Clark
  • Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

    We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes toward the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as the individual's disinterested evaluation ...

    2015, 1147-1208 | Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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