Episode 40: How do major life events impact our overall wellbeing? with Dr Nathan Kettlewell, University of Technology Sydney
In a recent article Dr Nathan Kettlewell and colleagues explored the impact that life events can have on overall wellbeing. What is the impact of major positive life events? And equally what is the impact of not so positive life events? In Episode 40 of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we explore these and other issues related to understand the impact of events on our positive and affective wellbeing. Dr Nathan Kettlewell is a Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Economics Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney and a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). As a researcher, Nathan’s main research interests are public policy, health economics and behavioural economics. Nathan is particularly interested in the formation of peoples' risk attitudes and what these attitudes mean for their life outcomes, understanding peoples' demand for private health insurance, and causal evaluation of government programs. Nathan’s website is as follows: https://sites.google.com/site/nrkettlewell/ The article discussed is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319302204