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Foundations of Australian Agricultural Economics [PDF]

open access: yes
In the early years of the twentieth century, Australia's leading economists were well versed in the nature of Australian agriculture but it was not until the 1930s and 1940s that scientists and economists alike realised there was an obvious need for ...
Myers, Laurel
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A Study of the Relationship Between Health and Subjective Well-being in Parkinson’s Disease Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Objectives: In light of the apparent disconnect between traditional measures of societal well-being such as GDP and reported levels of happiness, governments globally are turning their attention to alternative subjective measures of well-being (SWB) to ...
Cubi-Molla, P., De Vries, J., Devlin, N.
core   +1 more source

Adolescent Mental Health: Impact of Introducing Earlier Compulsory School Grades

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how the earlier introduction of compulsory school grades affects the likelihood of receiving a mental disorder diagnosis among Swedish adolescents. We exploit a school reform that shifted the introduction of grades from grade 8 to grade 6, resulting in first exposure to grading at different ages between cohorts.
Anna Linder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individual Differences in Subjective Utility and Risk Preferences: The Influence of Hedonic Capacity and Trait Anxiety

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2017
Individual differences in decision-making are important in both normal populations and psychiatric conditions. Variability in decision-making could be mediated by different subjective utilities or by other processes.
Jonathon R. Howlett, Martin P. Paulus
doaj   +1 more source

Market instability and economic complexity: Theoretical lessons from transition experiments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The 'Washington consensus' and 'shock therapy' approach to transition economies ignored the Keynesian lessons from the Great Depression: that market instability is a possibility and there may be an active role of government in managing stability and ...
Chen, Ping
core   +1 more source

Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that most moves are (at least partly) voluntary so that the sample of movers is self‐selected. We focus on a natural experiment, the government‐mandated
Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, Thinh Le Van
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Depressive Disorder on Consumption of Tobacco in Brazil

open access: yesRevista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Tobacco use has detrimental effects on health, well-being, and productivity, making it a topic of interest across multiple scientific disciplines, including Economics. Economic research examines both the social and financial costs of tobacco consumption,
Laís de Sousa Abreu Soares   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economics of attention: The gender-based bing communication study on depression

open access: gold, 2021
Yulin Hswen   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

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