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Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Rossetti, Fiammetta – Social Indicators Research, 2011
We investigate the relationship between money and happiness across the waves of the British Household Panel Study by using a latent class approach which accounts for slope heterogeneity. Our findings reveal the presence of a vast majority of "Easterlin-type" individuals with positive but very weak relationship between changes in income…
Descriptors: Social Indicators, Reference Groups, Income, Probability
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Trotman, Dave; Martyn, Madeline; Tucker, Stanley – Pastoral Care in Education, 2012
This paper reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative inquiry into risk in the lives of children and young people. Conducted over a 12-month period in Birmingham and the Black Country in the United Kingdom, the study sought to elicit perceptions of risk from the perspective of children and young people in primary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Research Design, Qualitative Research
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Lewis, Ann; Parsons, Sarah; Robertson, Christopher; Feiler, Anthony; Tarleton, Beth; Watson, Debby; Byers, Richard; Davies, Jill; Fergusson, Ann; Marvin, Claire – British Journal of Special Education, 2008
Increasingly in recent years, the involvement of disabled people as co-researchers has been regarded as "good practice." This has been informed by growing participatory and emancipatory research paradigms as well as user-focused policy imperatives. The benefits of these shifts apply to the research itself (improved definition, direction,…
Descriptors: Reference Groups, Disabilities, Researchers, Research Projects