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Working Papers

2015

1. Felicidad y estilos de crianza parental
   Working Papers, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2012

2. Do People in Income Poverty Use Their Income Efficiently?: a Subjective Well-Being Approach
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2008

3. Intra-Household Arrangements and Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (2)

2004

4. Well-being and the Complexity of Poverty: A Subjective Well-being Approach
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (26)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Life Satisfaction, Contentment, and Affect. Implications for Income’s Relevance
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2025, 26, (2), 1-19

2024

2. The Joint Enjoyment of Life. Explaining High Happiness in Latin America
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024, 25, (7), 1-23

2023

3. Is there a religious explanation for high life satisfaction in Latin America?
   Third World Quarterly, 2023, 44, (7), 1506-1525 View citations (1)
4. The hierarchy of needs empirical examination of Maslow’s theory and lessons for development
   World Development, 2023, 165, (C) View citations (4)

2022

5. Religious Practice and Life Satisfaction: A Domains-of-Life Approach
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, (5), 2349-2369 View citations (3)
6. The Life Satisfaction of Owner-Manager Entrepreneurs When the Business of Business is not only Business
   Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2022, 17, (4), 2251-2275

2020

7. Happiness, public policy and the notion of development
   Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4, (2), 166-176

2019

8. Pioneer in Happiness Research in Latin America
   Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2019, 14, (5), 1435-1437 View citations (1)

2018

9. Indicators of People’s Well-being
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, 135, (3), 941-950 View citations (1)

2017

10. Hunger and the Experience of Being Well: Absolute and Relative Concerns
    World Development, 2017, 96, (C), 78-86 View citations (5)

2015

11. Economic Crisis and Well-Being in Europe: Introduction
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2015, 120, (2), 319-322 View citations (6)

2013

12. Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, 110, (2), 415-431 View citations (10)
13. The subjective well-being of people in informal employment: empirical evidence from Mexico
    Evidence-based HRM, 2013, 1, (2), 169-186

2012

14. Book Review: Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora, eds. Paradox and Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+258. $27.95 (paper)
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 60, (4), 869 - 871

2011

15. La evaluación de enfermedades. Un enfoque de bienestar subjetivo
    El Trimestre Económico, 2011, LXXVIII (3), (311), 527-545
16. Poverty and psychological distress in Latin America
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32, (2), 206-217 View citations (9)
17. The ‘Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress’ Report and Quality of Life: Moving Forward
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2011, 102, (1), 169-180 View citations (14)

2010

18. Intra-Household Arrangements and Economic Satisfaction
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, 11, (2), 225-241 View citations (3)

2009

19. Economía de la felicidad. Hallazgos relevantes respecto al ingreso y el bienestar
    El Trimestre Económico, 2009, LXXVI (3), (303), 537-573 View citations (3)

2008

20. Experienced Poverty and Income Poverty in Mexico: A Subjective Well-Being Approach
    World Development, 2008, 36, (6), 1078-1093 View citations (47)
21. X-inefficiency in the use of income to attain economic satisfaction
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2008, 37, (6), 2278-2290 View citations (3)

2007

22. A Subjective Well-being Equivalence Scale for Mexico: Estimation and Poverty and Income-distribution Implications
    Oxford Development Studies, 2007, 35, (3), 273-293 View citations (26)
23. Heterogeneity in the relationship between income and happiness: A conceptual-referent-theory explanation
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2007, 28, (1), 1-14 View citations (36)
24. Inspiring Economics
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007, 8, (2), 293-298

2006

25. Life satisfaction and satisfaction in domains of life: is it a simple relationship?
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, 7, (4), 467-497 View citations (95)
26. The Utility of Happiness Research in Economics
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, 7, (4), 523-529 View citations (2)

2005

27. A Conceptual-Referent Theory of Happiness: Heterogeneity and its Consequences
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2005, 74, (2), 261-294 View citations (24)
28. Book Review: Review of Bernard M.S. van Praag & Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Happiness Quantified, A Satisfaction Calculus Approach, Oxford University Press, UK 2004, ISBN 0-19-828654-6, 352 pages
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2005, 6, (2), 194-204
29. La reforma eléctrica: El régimen apropiado
    El Trimestre Económico, 2005, LXXII (2), (286), 329-365

2001

30. Economic Theory and Subjective Well-being: Mexico
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2001, 53, (3), 289-314 View citations (34)

2000

31. Rentabilidad de la inversión en capital humano en México
    Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA, 2000, IX, (2), 113-142 View citations (4)

1999

32. Costo de transacción y discrecionalidad en la asignación del crédito preferencial en México
    El Trimestre Económico, 1999, 66 (2), (262), 227-258 View citations (2)

1997

33. Competencia por clientes en la industria bancaria de México
    El Trimestre Económico, 1997, 64 (1), (253), 47-73 View citations (1)
34. Transaction Costs in Mexico’s Preferential Credit
    Development Policy Review, 1997, 15, (1), 23-46 View citations (5)

Edited books

2019

1. The Economics of Happiness
   Springer Books, Springer View citations (58)

Chapters

2019

1. Relative Income and Happiness in Latin America: Implications for Inequality Debates
   Springer
2. The Relevance of Richard A. Easterlin’s Groundbreaking Work. A Historical Perspective
   Springer

2016

3. Leading a life of quality: conceptualizing quality of life
   Chapter 11 in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life, 2016, pp 229-246