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View article: An Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors and Consumer Motivations Influencing Organic Food Consumption: Barriers, Public Policy, and Sustainable Economic Practices
An Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors and Consumer Motivations Influencing Organic Food Consumption: Barriers, Public Policy, and Sustainable Economic Practices Open
View article: Role of Insurance in Risk Management
Role of Insurance in Risk Management Open
View article: Spot Inspection by SDO under BNSS: A Strategic Move in Civil Disputes
Spot Inspection by SDO under BNSS: A Strategic Move in Civil Disputes Open
View article: Cyber Risk and Legal Recourse: Analyzing India's Insurance Landscape through a Bihar Case Study
Cyber Risk and Legal Recourse: Analyzing India's Insurance Landscape through a Bihar Case Study Open
View article: The development of a capability wellbeing measure in economic evaluation for children and young people aged 11-15
The development of a capability wellbeing measure in economic evaluation for children and young people aged 11-15 Open
The capability approach provides a broad evaluative space for making funding decisions for health and care interventions, with capability wellbeing as the outcome of value. A range of capability measures have been developed for the economi…
View article: Development of Sustainable Dust Compression System for Coal Yard Safety
Development of Sustainable Dust Compression System for Coal Yard Safety Open
A sustainable water mist spray system for a closed coal yard. The project aims to address the need for dust suppression in the coal yard to mitigate environmental and health risks. The design specifications will be determined by considerin…
View article: ESIC 2024 Author Index
ESIC 2024 Author Index Open
View article: Is well-becoming important for children and young people? Evidence from in-depth interviews with children and young people and their parents
Is well-becoming important for children and young people? Evidence from in-depth interviews with children and young people and their parents Open
Purpose This study explores how important well-becoming factors appear to be to children during childhood. We define well-becoming as the indicators which predict children and young people’s future wellbeing and opportunities. The priority…
View article: Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach
Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach Open
This chapter provides a brief introduction to the capability approach and its use in public policy-making around the world. Specifically, it shows the approach provides a definition of wellbeing and a framework for understanding how it is …
View article: Author Index
Author Index Open
View article: A Review Essay on Housing, Subjective Well-Being and the Capabilities Approach
A Review Essay on Housing, Subjective Well-Being and the Capabilities Approach Open
Housing is not consumed in isolation form other aspects of life and our housing can have important meanings attaching to it. The authors seek to add to the growing literature around capabilities and subjective well-being by drawing out the…
View article: Wellbeing: Alternative Policy Perspectives
Wellbeing: Alternative Policy Perspectives Open
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of li…
View article: The Children and Young People Quality of Life Study: A protocol for the qualitative development of attributes for capability wellbeing measures for use in health economic evaluation with children and young people
The Children and Young People Quality of Life Study: A protocol for the qualitative development of attributes for capability wellbeing measures for use in health economic evaluation with children and young people Open
Background: Health services face difficult choices regarding how to allocate scarce health and social care resources. Economic evaluation can aid this process of decision making by allowing competing healthcare interventions or services to…
View article: The development and validation of the ‘Good Life in the Community Scale’ (GLiCS): a validation study with women migrants living in high income countries
The development and validation of the ‘Good Life in the Community Scale’ (GLiCS): a validation study with women migrants living in high income countries Open
View article: Community Participation and Multidimensional Child Growth: Evidence from the Vietnam Young Lives Study
Community Participation and Multidimensional Child Growth: Evidence from the Vietnam Young Lives Study Open
The association between community participation and multidimensional child growth is indicative of the importance of community participation during the design phase of interventions, in particular for the nonphysical dimensions of child gr…
View article: Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter
Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter Open
Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household, and school-related factors. Although these factors are unlikely to be independent, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting between schools and households mig…
View article: Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?
Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter? Open
Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household- and school-related factors. Although these factors are unlikely to be independent, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting between schools and households mig…
View article: Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach
Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach Open
The paper provides a brief introduction to the capability approach and its use in public policy-making around the world. Specifically, it shows the approach provides a definition of wellbeing and a framework for understanding how it is pro…
View article: Stigma of persons with disabilities in South Africa: Uncovering pathways from discrimination to depression and low self-esteem
Stigma of persons with disabilities in South Africa: Uncovering pathways from discrimination to depression and low self-esteem Open
View article: How can governments think beyond GDP
How can governments think beyond GDP Open
Economists are increasingly looking beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of a society’s health. Paul Anand (Open University) discusses some of the ways in which the pandemic will affect inequality and wellbeing, and how adoptin…
View article: Work-related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
Work-related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission Open
The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of transmission experience reported by respondent…
View article: COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges
COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges Open
This paper shows how the policy challenges arising from COVID-19 can be understood by drawing on core concepts from the capability approach developed by Sen and others.
View article: Post-Covid 19 economic development and policy: submitted as recommendations to the Scottish economic recovery group
Post-Covid 19 economic development and policy: submitted as recommendations to the Scottish economic recovery group Open
View article: Post-lockdown labour markets: time to reflect on the type of economic progress that we want
Post-lockdown labour markets: time to reflect on the type of economic progress that we want Open
Paul Anand discusses some of the challenges facing labour markets in the light of COVID-19. He concludes that getting things right requires an ability on the part of the government to think more broadly and creatively about all the human o…
View article: Can Women’s Self-help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Can Women’s Self-help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India Open
This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …
View article: Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India Open
View article: COVID-19 and the UK labour market
COVID-19 and the UK labour market Open
This article considers policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis as they affect the labour market, how these policies are evolving and some of the design issues they face. The concentration is on the UK, but other countries are also discusse…
View article: Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission Open
View article: WEALTH AND HEALTH IN PREDICTING ELDERS’ SOCIAL CAPABILITIES IN CHINA: MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORK
WEALTH AND HEALTH IN PREDICTING ELDERS’ SOCIAL CAPABILITIES IN CHINA: MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORK Open
Despite an established positive link between social wealth, health, and social capability among older adults, the effect and mechanisms among these factors are understudied. This paper uses the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (…
View article: Does Sorting Matter for Learning Inequality? Evidence From East Africa
Does Sorting Matter for Learning Inequality? Evidence From East Africa Open