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• ISQOLS Webinar, "Money does not always buy happiness, but are richer people less happy in their daily lives?"

  • When
    30 Nov 2022
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    11:00 AM (EST)
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  ISQOLS WEBINAR:

  "Money does not always buy happiness, but are richer people less happy in their daily lives? 

  It depends on how you analyze income"

  
  

  WEDNESDAY

  November 30th

  9:00am MST/11:00am EST/5:00pm CET

  
  

  Do people who have more money feel happier during their daily activities? Some prior research has found no relationship between income and daily happiness when treating income as a continuous variable in OLS regressions, although results differ between studies. We re-analyzed existing data from the United States and Germany, treating household income as a categorical variable and using lowess and spline regressions to explore nonlinearities. Our analyses reveal that these methodological decisions change the results and conclusions about the relationship between income and happiness.

  
  

  Presented by: Laura Kudrna

  
  

  Laura Kudrna is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. Her main research interests are in applying psychological and behavioural principles to drive health and wellbeing improvements for individuals and communities. She has specific interests in income, workplaces, and inequalities. Prior to joining Birmingham, she spent seven years at the London School of Economics (MSc Social Research Methodology, PhD Social Policy) and held a post-doctoral post at Warwick Medical School where she contributed to a cluster randomised controlled trial with small to mediums sized enterprises..

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ISQOLS Webinar, "Do teachers matter for students' wellbeing and long-term success?"

  • When
    8 Dec 2022
  •  
    7:00 AM (EST)
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  ISQOLS WEBINAR:

  Do teachers matter for students' wellbeing and long-term success?

  
  

  THURSDAY

  December 8

  9:00am EST/3:00pm CET

  
  

  Using rich cohort data in the United Kingdom, this paper estimates teacher value-added on students' test scores and non-cognitive skills in primary school. I find that that teachers are important on both the determination of students' test scores and non-cognitive skills. Conditional on teacher effects on students' test scores, teacher effects on students' non-cognitive skills persist over time and reach into early adulthood, predicting a range of economic and social outcomes measured at age 20, including going to university, labour market aspirations, risky health behaviours, and attitudes towards others.

  
  

  Presented by: Sarah Fleche

  
  

  Sarah Fleche is an applied economist and CNRS research fellow at the Sorbonne Economic Centre (University Paris 1), in France. Her research lies in the fields of labour, education and behavioural economics and has led to new insights into the role of schools on wellbeing development, mental health and determinants of wellbeing over the life course. Sarah is also an associate researcher at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance and the French Wellbeing Observatory (CEPREMAP). In 2008, together with Andrew Clark, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward, she wrote a book on The Origins of Happiness. Prior to joining Paris 1 University, she has been an assistant professor at the Aix Marseille School of Economics, a post-doctoral researcher at the LSE and received her PhD from Paris School of Economics.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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