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"Intangible Dividend of Antipoverty Effort: Happiness" By SABRINA TAVERNISE at the NY Times
Intangible Dividend of Antipoverty Effort: HappinessBy SABRINA TAVERNISE at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/health/intangible-dividend-in-an-anti-poverty-experiment-happiness.html?hp
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What researchers did find were substantial improvements in the physical and mental health of the people who moved. Researchers reported last year in The New England Journal of Medicine that the participants who moved to new neighborhoods had lower rates of obesity and diabetes than those not offered the chance to move. Beyond the increase in happiness, the new study found lower levels of depression among those who moved.
“Mental health and subjective well-being are very important,” said William Julius Wilson, a sociology professor at Harvard whose 1987 book “The Truly Disadvantaged” pioneered theory about concentrated poverty. “If you are not feeling well, it’s going to affect everything — your employment, relations with your family.”
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