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Working Papers

2024

1. The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?
   Papers, arXiv.org
   See also Journal Article The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2024) (2024)

2019

2. A global assessment of street network sprawl
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science View citations (11)
3. Global trends towards urban street-network sprawl
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science

2018

4. How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2010

5. How Much is Social Capital Worth?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)
6. Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (80)
7. Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (46)

2009

8. International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (84)

2008

9. Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (30)
10. Veblen goods and neighbourhoods: endogenising consumption reference groups
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
11. Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (17)

Journal Articles

2024

1. High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes
   Papers published in Journals (Open Access), 2024, 121(7):e2311703121.
2. The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?
   Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, (C)
   See also Working Paper The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?, Papers (2024) (2024)

2023

3. A Public, Open, and Independently-Curated Database of Happiness Coefficients
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, (4), 1505-1531 View citations (1)

2021

4. Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being
   PLOS ONE, 2021, 16, (1), 1-15 View citations (5)

2019

5. An evaluation of air quality, home heating and well-being under Beijing’s programme to eliminate household coal use
   Nature Energy, 2019, 4, (5), 416-423 View citations (24)
6. Feasible future global scenarios for human life evaluations
   Nature Communications, 2019, 10, (1), 1-8 View citations (3)
7. Informing Policy Priorities using Inference from Life Satisfaction Responses in a Large Community Survey
   Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2019, 14, (4), 911-924 View citations (2)

2018

8. Measuring Progress and Well-Being: A Comparative Review of Indicators
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, 135, (3), 893-925 View citations (40)

2017

9. Early-life family income and subjective well-being in adolescents
   PLOS ONE, 2017, 12, (7), 1-11 View citations (5)
10. Erratum to: Evaluating the short-term cost of low-level local air pollution: a life satisfaction approach
    Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2017, 19, (1), 229-229 View citations (4)
11. Evaluating the short-term cost of low-level local air pollution: a life satisfaction approach
    Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2017, 19, (2), 269-298 View citations (11)
12. The impact of daily weather conditions on life satisfaction: Evidence from cross-sectional and panel data
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, (C), 145-163 View citations (9)
13. The renewable energy landscape in Canada: A spatial analysis
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017, 75, (C), 809-819 View citations (24)

2016

14. Sustainability and Well-Being: A Happy Synergy
    Development, 2016, 59, (3), 292-298 View citations (7)

2015

15. The Short-Run Household, Industrial, and Labour Impacts of the Quebec Carbon Market
    Canadian Public Policy, 2015, 41, (4), 265-280

2013

16. The Quebec Convergence and Canadian Life Satisfaction, 1985-2008
    Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39, (2), 193-219 View citations (8)

2010

17. Cutting through the Clutter: Searching for an Over-Arching Measure of Well-Being
    ifo DICE Report, 2010, 8, (04), 8-12 View citations (2)
18. Viewpoint: Measuring and understanding subjective well-being
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43, (3), 729-753 View citations (69)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43, (3), 729-753 (2010) View citations (17)