Thanks to Eimear for sending this on. As announced in his email, Alan will be taking over running the journal club so suggestions to him.
19th Feb :Early-Life Conditions and Later-Life Outcomes:
Currie & Hyson (1999): ‘Is the impact of health shocks cushioned by socioeconomic status? The case of low birthweight.’
26th Feb Libertarian Paternalism:
Thaler & Sunstein (2003): ‘Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron’
Klein (2004): ‘Oh yes it is’
Loewenstein & Haisley: ‘Oh no it is isn't... in theory, but would it work in practice?’
5th March Early-Life Interventions:
Heckman (2007): ‘The productivity argument for investing in young children' (http://www.nber.org/papers/w13016)
13th March Biomarkers:
Steptoe et al. (2004): ‘Effort–reward imbalance, overcommitment, and measures of cortisol and blood pressure over the working day.’
Jacobs et al., (2007): ‘A momentary assessment study of the relationship between affective and adrenocortical stress responses in daily life.’
Steptoe et al., (2005): ‘Tools of psychosocial biology in health care research’.
19th March Measuring Well-Being:
Kapteyn, Smith & Van Soest (2008): ‘Comparing life satisfaction’.
26th March Sociology, Identity and Economics:
Akerlof and Kranton: "An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice"
Akerlof and Kranton (2002): "Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education"
2nd April Do smoking bans work?:
Shetty et al (2009): “Changes in U. S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans”.
9th April Happiness and causality:
Oreopoulos (2007): “Do dropouts drop out too soon? Wealth, health and happiness from compulsory schooling.”
16th April DRM:
Kahneman et al. (2004), ‘A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: the Day Reconstruction Method’.
Kahneman and Riis, ‘Living, and thinking about it: two perspectives on life’
23rd April Religion and Culture:
Guiso et al. (2003): “People’s opium? Religion and economic attitudes”.
Giuliano (2007): “Living arrangements in western Europe: Does cultural origin matter?”
30th April Gender differences and the labour market:
Olivetti and Petrongolo (2008): "Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Pay Gaps"
Gneezy et al. (2003):“Performance in competitive environments: Gender differences”
7th May Health Gradients:
Smith et al. (2006): “The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic”
14th May Decision making and risk:
Tversky and Kahneman (1974): “Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases”.
21st May Discrimination in Ireland:
McGinnity et al. (ERSI) (2009): “Discrimination in recruitment: Evidence from a field experiment”
28th May Angrist week:
Angrist (2004): “American education research changes tack”.
4th June Momentary assessment and the chronically ill:
Riis et al. (2005): “Ignorance of hedonic adaptation to hemodialysis: A study using Ecological Momentary Assessment”
Garling et al. (2009): “Impact of routine out-of-home activities on subjective well-being”
10th June Public Health:
Carlisle and Hanlon (2008): “‘Well-being’ as a focus for public health? A critique and defense”.
26th June R and D spending:
Goolsbee (1998): “Does Government R and D policy mainly benefit scientists and engineers?”
Lane (2009): “Assessing the impact of science funding”
2nd July Early-life shocks:
van den Berg, Lindeboom & Portrait (2009): “Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch potato famine of 1846-1847”
10th July Unemployment, recession and suicide:
Hintikka et al. (2009): “Suicide mortality in Finland during an economic cycle, 1985 -1995”
Kposowa (2001): “Unemployment and suicide: a cohort analysis of social factors predicting suicide in the US National Longitudinal Mortality Study”
17th July Privatisation and mortality rates:
Stuckler, King and McKee (2009) "Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis"
24th July Weather, emotions and the stock market:
Hirshleifer and Shumway (2003) “Good Day Sunshine: Stock Returns and the Weather”.
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