The relationship between measures of subjective and economic well-being: A new look

The objective of this research is to examine the importance of variable specification in using economic variable to explain the variance in individual's perceived (1) overall psychological, (2) economic, and (3) non-economic well-being. Results indicate that careful specification of economic variables improves the explained variance of perceived subjective well-being. Specification of dependent variable, life satisfaction, based on a domain-specific scale, proves superior to using the response to the global satisfaction question, “How do you feel about life as a whole?’ Economic variables prove significant in explaining both perceived economic and non-economic domains of life satisfaction. Although its overall effect on life satisfaction is negative, increased family size is found to enhance non-economic life satisfaction, while detracting from economic aspects of life satisfaction.     

A Child Sexual Abuse Research Project: A Brief Endnote

There is a dearth of research on sexual abuse perpetrated by educators. Although the problem is receiving increasing attention, little emphasis has been placed on abuse directed at younger schoolchildren and on offenders’ accounts of this form of abuse. Here, we attempt to address this gap in knowledge by exploring the narratives of five convicted, imprisoned male child sexual abusers, each of whom worked with children in educational settings in the United Kingdom. We draw on four themes that emerged from detailed interviews with offenders, namely: the power of reputation, authority and control, the “front of invulnerability,” and disclosure of abuse. We conclude by considering the implications of our work for policy and practice.     

Housing Stability and Problem Gambling: Is There a Relationship?

ABSTRACT

Despite negative consequences, few studies have explored problem-gambling risk and housing stability. This article examined whether gamblers with stable housing would be at lower problem-gambling risk than those with transient/unstable housing. Community-recruited 15- to 85-year-old gamblers (n = 312) provided structured telephone interviews of their gambling problems, substance and psychiatric conditions, and sociodemographics, including current living situations. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, Text Revision gambling criteria classified three gambling groups. Results show that for every one non-problem gambler, 0.24 subthreshold gamblers experienced stable housing (95% CI = 0.08–0.79). Future research necessitates further delineation of the relationship of housing stability and problem-gambling risk.     

中国，如何消除“效率鸿沟”

去物质形态化与可持续发展经济和环境是同一个硬币的两面,因为正是通过经济发展,我们对环境施加影响,而环境既是经济发展的基本资源又是发展的结果。事实上,那些把经济置于首位的国家越来越清楚地意识到经济与环境之间的关系和经济对环境的依赖性。     

Newcomb's paradox

This note proposes a new solution to the problem based on the information states available to the two opponents. The demon or predictor has two possible states on which to choose his course of action. These states are his predictions of the agents choice. The agent has only one state on which to make his choice. It is shown that unless the reward is small, the agent should make his choice probabilistically, using the same odds as the demon's chances of correct prediction.     

The Ecological and Spatial Structure of the Socio-Economic Characteristics of Winnipeg,1961

L'application de l'analyse des composantes principales aux donnees socio-economiques de 1961 pour Winnipeg nous permet d'extraire les dimensions sous-jacentes de la structure socio-economique de la population de la ville. On y fait la demonstration que les dimensions derivees correspondent dans une large mesure aux dimensions obtenues par l'analyse de l'aire sociale. II est de plus souligne que l'analyse des composantes principales constitue un instrument utile dans l'analyse des donnees urbaines multivariees; elle est egalement tres utile-a Pinterieur de certaines limites-dans les etudes empiriques portant sur la structure ecologique de la ville.
The application of principal components analysis to 1961 socio-economic data for Winnipeg derives the underlying dimensions of the socio-economic structure of the city's population. It is generally shown that the derived dimensions are quite similar to "social area analysis" dimensions. It is further indicated that principal components analysis provides a useful tool in the analysis of multivariate urban data and, subject to certain limitations, is extremely useful in empirical studies of the ecological structure of cities.