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Sep 2, 2022

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2) is proposed as a new capabilities-based framework for assessing threats to thriving and understanding progress in achieving lifelong health and wellbeing.
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Jul 7, 2022

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data show a statistically significant increase in depressive symptoms from 2005/2006 to 2007/2008 (the beginning of the Great Recession), but there were no significant or consistent changes after 2007/2008.
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Jul 7, 2022

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

During the Great Recession, American diets became more consistent with Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations, possibly because of a shift toward food prepared at home instead of prepared food bought away from home.
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Nov 9, 2021

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

This paper uses data from the Britain's Healthiest Workplaces survey to highlight the costs associated with stress and impaired wellbeing in the workplace and their implication for productivity and, by extension, the economic health of society.
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Dec 1, 2020

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

We assess the potential benefits of increased physical activity for the global economy for 23 countries and the rest of the world from 2020 to 2050. The main factors taken into account in the economic assessment are excess mortality and lower productivity.
Commentary

Aug 22, 2020

Too Interconnected to Fail

The 2007–08 financial crisis made regulators and lawmakers acutely aware that some financial institutions had become too big to fail. The next big economic crisis may arise outside the financial sector, in highly networked companies that are too interconnected to fail.
Commentary

Jul 13, 2020

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Jonathan Welburn, an operations researcher at RAND, has spent years studying how economic shocks ripple outward like a contagion through the economy. He recently helped develop an online tool that policymakers can use to manage the health and economic effects of COVID-19 interventions.
Research Summary

Feb 3, 2020

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

After a decade of focus on financial firms, new analysis using an innovative approach and new dataset shows that firms in a diverse range of sectors, such as technology and telecommunications, pose a systemic risk to the economy at large.
Project

Jan 28, 2020

Beyond Brexit: understanding the potential economic implications of prolonged trade policy uncertainty

Researchers from RAND and RAND Europe assessed the potential economic ramifications of prolonged trade policy uncertainty associated with the renegotiation period between the UK and EU after Brexit.
Research

Jan 21, 2020

Systemic Risk in the Broad Economy: Interfirm Networks and Shocks in the U.S. Economy

Following the 2008 financial crisis, little attention was paid to systemic risks in the economy at large. The authors of this report address that gap, finding evidence that systemic risk extends beyond the financial sector.
Research

Jan 9, 2020

Exploring the Use of a General Equilibrium Method to Assess the Value of a Malaria Vaccine: An Application to Ghana

A general equilibrium method was used to quantify the potential impact of a malaria vaccination on the wider economy, using Ghana as an example. Results suggest investing in improving childhood health by vaccinating could have macroeconomic benefits.
Research

Oct 11, 2018

Three Essays on Economic Growth and Human Welfare

Examines the influence of macroeconomic factors on individual welfare.

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The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

Too Interconnected to Fail

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

Beyond Brexit: understanding the potential economic implications of prolonged trade policy uncertainty

Systemic Risk in the Broad Economy: Interfirm Networks and Shocks in the U.S. Economy

Exploring the Use of a General Equilibrium Method to Assess the Value of a Malaria Vaccine: An Application to Ghana

Three Essays on Economic Growth and Human Welfare

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The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

Too Interconnected to Fail

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

Beyond Brexit: understanding the potential economic implications of prolonged trade policy uncertainty

Systemic Risk in the Broad Economy: Interfirm Networks and Shocks in the U.S. Economy

Exploring the Use of a General Equilibrium Method to Assess the Value of a Malaria Vaccine: An Application to Ghana

Three Essays on Economic Growth and Human Welfare

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