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Working Papers

2023

1. Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   See also Journal Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)

2022

2. A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2022) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in International Productivity Monitor (2022)
3. Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores: evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
4. Measuring Progress
   IZA Policy Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
5. Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)

2021

6. A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2021) View citations (3)
7. Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2021)
   Papers, arXiv.org (2021)
8. Trust predicts compliance to Covid-19 containment policies: evidence from ten countries using big data
   Department of Economics University of Siena, Department of Economics, University of Siena

2020

9. The Easterlin Paradox
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (11)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2020) View citations (11)

2019

10. Economic growth and well-being beyond the Easterlin paradox
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    See also Chapter (2021)
11. Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
    GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Happiness Studies (2022)
12. Making economic growth and well-being compatible: evidence from Japan
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
13. The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union
    GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2020)

2018

14. Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States
    Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2019)

Journal Articles

2022

1. A Measure of Well-being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
   International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 43, 10-40 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2022)
2. Are economic growth and well-being compatible? Welfare reform and life satisfaction in Japan
   (Childcare expansion in East Asia: Changing shape of the institutional configurations in Japan and South Korea)
   Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74, (3), 721-745
3. Explaining happiness trends in Europe
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, (37), e2210639119
   See also Working Paper (2023)
4. Labor Market Policy and Subjective Well-Being During the Great Recession
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, (2), 391-422
   See also Working Paper (2019)

2020

5. Does the U-shape Pattern in Life Cycle Satisfaction Obscure Reality? A Response to Blanchflower
   Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020, 7, (2), 201-206 View citations (3)
6. Life Satisfaction and Noncognitive Skills: Effects on the Likelihood of Unemployment
   Kyklos, 2020, 73, (4), 568-604 View citations (1)
7. The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, (C), 257-274
   See also Working Paper (2019)

2019

8. Longer, more optimistic, lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, (C), 374-392 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper (2018)

2018

9. Does oil really curse democracy? A long-run time-series analysis of 127 countries
   Resources Policy, 2018, 57, (C), 264-277 View citations (10)

2017

10. Experienced Life Cycle Satisfaction in Europe
    Review of Behavioral Economics, 2017, 4, (4), 371-396 View citations (9)
11. Happiness and Welfare State Policy Around the World
    Review of Behavioral Economics, 2017, 4, (4), 397-420

2015

12. OIL CURSE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES: WHICH INSTITUTIONS ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO THE CURSE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES?
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33, (2), 229-249 View citations (6)

Chapters

2021

1. Economic growth and well-being beyond the Easterlin paradox
   Chapter 9 in A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness, 2021, pp 162-188
   See also Working Paper (2019)