Professor Andrew Oswald

Research Interests

Applied Economics and Quantitative Social Science.

Recent Selected Publications (since 1996) (click here for some more)

• "Wages, Profits and Rent-Sharing", with David Blanchflower and Peter Sanfey, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 111, 227-252. (Paper - PDF 73kb)

• "Satisfaction and Comparison Income", with Andrew Clark, Journal of Public Economics,1996, 61, 359-381. (Paper - PDF 85kb)

• "Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in Age?", with Andrew Clark and Peter Warr, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 1996, 69, 57-81. (Paper - PDF 1,480KB)

• "Happiness and Economic Performance", Economic Journal, 1997, 107, 1815-1831. (Paper - PDF 106kb).

• "Wages and Rent-Sharing: Evidence from Company and Establishment Panels", with Andrew Hildreth, Journal of Labor Economics, 1997, 15, 318-337.

• "Thoughts on NAIRU", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, Correspondence, 227-228. (Paper - PDF 10kb)

• "Comparison-Concave Utility and Following Behaviour in Social and Economic Settings", with Andrew Clark, Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 70, 133-150. (Paper - PDF 523kb).

• "Input Prices and Unemployment Equilibria: Theory and Evidence for the United States", with Alan Carruth and Mark Hooker, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, 621-628. (Paper - PDF 141kb).

• "What Makes an Entrepreneur?", with David Blanchflower, Journal of Labor Economics, 1998, 16, 26-60. (Paper - PDF 103kb)

• "An Economist's View of University League Tables", Public Money and Management, 2001, 21, 5-6. (Paper - PDF 17kb)

• "Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness", with Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, American Economic Review, March 2001, 91, 335-341. (Paper - PDF 56kb)

• "Latent Entrepreneurship Across Nations", with David Blanchflower and Alois Stutzer, European Economic Review, May 2001, 45, 680-691. (Paper - PDF 43kb)

• "Economics That Matters: Using the Tax System to Solve the Shortage of Human Organs", Kyklos,Special Issue in Honour of Bruno Frey, 2001, 54, 379-381. (Paper - PDF 15kb)

• "Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Others' Incomes?", with Daniel John Zizzo, Annalesd'Economie et de Statistique, July/December 2001, 63-64, 39-65. (Paper - PDF 224kb) ( Non-technical press release)

• "A Simple Statistical Method for Measuring How Life Events affect Happiness", with Andrew Clark, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002, 31(6), 1139-1144. (Paper- PDF 70kb)

• "How Much do External Factors Affect Wellbeing? A Way to Use 'Happiness Economics' to Decide", The Psychologist, 2003, 16, 140-141. (Paper - PDF 29kb)

• "The Macroeconomics of Happiness" with Rafael di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, 809-827. (Paper - PDF 180kb)

• "Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA", with David Blanchflower, Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, 1359-1386. (Paper - PDF 124kb)

• "Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study", with David Blanchflower, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 393-416. (Paper - PDF 77kb)

• "How is Mortality Affected by Money, Marriage, and Stress?", with Jonathan Gardner, Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, 1181-1207. (Paper - PDF 135kb)

• "Regional Wages and the Need for a Better Area Cost Adjustment", with David Blanchflower, Public Money and Management, 2005, 25, 86-88. (Paper - PDF 14kb)

• "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia", with David Blanchflower, Australian Economic Review, 2005, 38, 307-319. (Paper - PDF 137kb)

• "Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?", with Jonathan Gardner, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2006, 169(2), 319-336. (Paper - PDF 189kb)

• "Money and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins", with Jonathan Gardner, Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26, 49-60. (Paper - PDF 171kb)

• "An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers", Economica, 2007, 74, 21-31. (Paper - PDF 115kb)

• "Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, Economic Journal, 2007, 117(521), F441-454 (Paper - PDF 91kb).

• "Hypertension and Happiness across Nations", with David Blanchflower, Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 218-233 (Paper - PDF 168kb).

• "Human Well-being and Causality in Social Epidemiology", International Journal of Epidemiology, 2007, 36(6), 1253-1254 (PDF - 22kb)

• "Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Well-Being?", Industrial Relations, 2008, 47(3), 355-389 (PDF - 238kb)

• "Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37(S2), S217-S252 (PDF - 135kb)

• "Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92(5-6), 1061-1077 (PDF - 127kb)

• "Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?", with David Blanchflower, Social Science & Medicine, 2008, 66(6), 1733-1749 (PDF - 163kb)

• "On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings", Economics Letters, 2008, 100, 369-372 (PDF - 100kb)

• "Mortality and Immortality: The Nobel Prize as an Experiment into the Effect of Status upon Longevity", with Matthew D. Rablen, Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1462-1471 (PDF - 129kb)

• "Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility", with David G. Blanchflower and Bert Van Landeghem, Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528-538 (PDF - 128kb)

• "The Elite Brain Drain", with Rosalind S. Hunter and Bruce G. Charlton, Economic Journal, 2009, 119(538), F231-251 (PDF - 200kb)

• "Daughters and Leftwing Voting", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(2), 213-227 (PDF - 205kb)

• "Well-being Across America", with Stephen Wu, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming (PDF - 1291kb)

• "Why Do Leaders Matter? A Study of Expert Knowledge in a Superstar Setting", with Amanda H. Goodall and Lawrence M. Kahn, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming (PDF - 503KB)

• "Antidepressants and Age", with David G. Blanchflower, June 2011. PDF
  

• "Dark Contrasts: The Paradox of High Rates of Suicide in Happy Places", Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. PDF

• "International Happiness", Working Paper, with David G. Blanchflower,January 2011. PDF

• "Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission", British Journal of Industrial Relations, November 2010. PDF.

• "Emotional Prosperity, not GDP", The Economist, April 2010. PDF.

• "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress". PDF.

• "Hedonic capital, adaptation and resilience", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, July 2010. PDF

• "Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA", with Steve Wu, Science, February 2010. Abstract. PDF.

Earlier papers are available from the Repec site

Current Working Papers and Non-Technical Articles

• 2010 Papers
• 2009 Papers
• 2008 Papers
• 2007 Papers
• 2006 Papers
• 2005 Papers
• 2004 Papers
• 2003 Papers
• 2002 Papers
• 2001 Papers
• 2000 Papers
• 1999 Papers
• Papers from 1996, 1997 and 1998

The articles below include those from my regular columns in the Independent newspaper and Accountancy magazine (published by the Institute of Chartered Accountancy).

2010 Papers

• "Happiness and Productivity", with Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi, May 2010. PDF
• "Notes on Economics and the Future of Quantitative Social Science", May 2010. PDF
• "Are Happiness and Productivity Lower Among University Students With Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach", with Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi - February 2010 (PDF - 65kb)

2009 Papers

• "The Effects of Daughters on Health Choices and Risk Behaviour", with Nattavudh Powdthavee and Steve Wu - December 2009 (PDF - 703kb)
• "Things it would have been useful to have been told as a starting PhD student" - October 2009 (PDF - 12kb)
• "Well-being across America: Evidence from a Random Sample of One Million U.S. Citizens", with Stephen Wu - August 2009 (PDF - 241kb)
• "Hypertension and Happiness across Regions", with David Blanchflower - June 2009 (PDF - 95kb)
• "Hydrogen Transport and the Spatial Requirements of Renewable Energy", with Jim Oswald and Hezlin Ashraf-Ball - May 2009 (PDF - 141kb)
• "St Andrews and Dr Richardson" - April 2009 (PDF - 17kb)
• "Given the Cost of Studying, Should I Go to University?" - Febuary 2009 (PDF - 16kb)
• "After RAE2008, Peer Overview" - January 2009 (PDF - 32kb)
• "World-Leading Research and its Measurement" - January, 2009 (PDF - 96kb)
• "We Are Going Back to Work, But.", January 2009 (PDF - 20kb)

2008 Papers

• "Do People Become Healthier After Being Promoted?", with Christopher Boyce, December 2008 (PDF - 150kb)
• "Switzerland's Universities", November 2008 (PDF - 23kb)
• "Heads and Reds: The Human Tendency to See Patterns in Random Data", November 2008 (PDF - 40kb)
• "Herd Behaviour and the Current Crisis", October 2008 (PDF - 17kb)
• "Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility", with David Blanchflower and Bert van Landeghem, July 2008 (PDF - 176kb)
• "The Best Way to Design a Future RAE for UK Universities", July 2008 (PDF - 14kb)
• "Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge", with Amanda Goodall and Lawrence Kahn, June 2008 (PDF - 318kb)
• "Why Brilliant Teachers Matter", May 2008 (PDF - 16kb)
• "The Case for Saver Insurance", April 2008 (PDF - 15kb)

2007 Papers

• "Our Universities Today", December 2007 (PDF - 36kb)

• "An Interview with Avinash Dixit", November 2007 (PDF - 30kb)
• "Elite Scientists and the Global Brain Drain", September 2007 (PDF - 234kb)
• "Oil Prices, Profits, and Recessions: An Inquiry Using Terrorism as an Instrumental Variable", with Natalie Chen and Liam Graham, August 2007 (PDF - 1.2MB)
• "Some Evidence on the Future of Economics", with Hilda Ralsmark, August 2007 (PDF - 64kb)
• "Brain Drain Worries and a Fund for Top Scientists", August 2007 (PDF - 12kb)
• "Death and the Calculation of Hedonic Damages", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, June 2007 (PDF - 235kb)
• "Looking Up", March 2007 (PDF - 14kb)
• "Hypertension and Happiness across Nations", with David Blanchflower, February 2007 (PDF - 177kb)
• "Thinking Globally about Science and the UK's Missing 56% of Elite Scientists", January 2007 (PDF - 9kb)
• "Mortality and Immortality", January 2007 (PDF - 128kb)

2006 Papers

• "Affluenza: A Review", December 2006 (PDF - 41kb)
• "Work-Life Balance Happiness", WBS Lecture, November 2006 (PDF - 373kb)
• "Prestige Labels", November 2006 (PDF - 48kb)
• "Happiness Powerpoint Talk: Esmee Fairbairn Lecture, Lancaster", November 2006 (PDF - 464kb)
• "Presentation in Rome 2006 on Prestigious Journals and the Research Assessment Exercise", October 2006 (PDF - 40kb)
• "Further Data and Graphs on Oil Prices and US Unemployment, September 2006 (Data - XLS 174kb)
• "Does Economic Growth Create Happiness?", August 2006 (Paper - PDF 344kb)
• "Thoughts for New Undergraduates and Tense Parents", August 2006 (Paper - PDF 14kb)
• "Is Wellbeing U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?", August 2006 (Paper - PDF 88kb)
• "Rewarding Thinkers", June 2006 (Paper - PDF 15kb)
• "Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?", May 2006 (Paper - PDF 238kb)
• "What is a Happiness Equation?", May 2006 (Paper - PDF 217kb)
• "An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers", April, 2006 (Paper - PDF 62kb)
• "Educating Peter", March, 2006 (Paper - PDF 24kb)
• "Hedonic Capital", with Liam Graham, March, 2006 (Paper - PDF 165kb)
• "The Wage Curve: An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition", with David Blanchflower, February, 2006 (Paper - PDF 23kb)
• "Daughters and Left-Wing Voting Powerpoint Talk", January, 2006 (Paper - PDF 405kb)
• "The Hippies Were Right All Along About Happiness", January, 2006 (Paper - PDF 45kb)

2005 Papers

• "Further Results on Daughters and Left-Wing Voting: Germany 1985-2002", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, December, 2005 (Paper - PDF 103kb)
• "Daughters and Left-Wing Voting", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, December, 2005 (Paper - PDF 443kb)
• "The United Kingdom's Troubled Recent History on Nobel Prizes", December, 2005 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "On Leigh-Wolfers and Wellbeing in Australia", with David Blanchflower, November, 2005 (Paper - PDF 8kb)
• "Money and Mental Health: A Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins", with Jonathan Gardner, November, 2005 (Paper - PDF 170kb)
• "Debating Chambers in Space", November, 2005 (Paper - PDF 19kb)
• "Truth, Standards and UK Universities", October, 2005 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges", with Nattavudh Powdthavee, September, 2005 (Paper - PDF 416kb)
• "On the Common Claim that Happiness Equations Demonstrate Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income", September, 2005 (Paper - PDF 25kb)
• "Unions, Jobs, and Airline Alliteration", August, 2005 (Paper - PDF 15kb)
• "How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence", with Chris Wilson, May 2005 (Paper - PDF 333kb)
• "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia", with David Blanchflower, May 2005 (Paper - PDF 113kb)
• "Harvard and the Case For 4", April 2005 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "The Wage Curve Reloaded", with David Blanchflower, March 2005 (Paper - PDF 205kb)
• "Fear of Flying", February 2005 (Paper - PDF 14kb)
• "Energy and Travel in the Future", February 2005 (Paper - PDF 55kb) (Link to video streaming)
• "Recovering Happiness", January 2005 (Paper - PDF 10kb)

2004 Papers

• "The Fun-Run Phenomenon", December 2004 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "The Case for a Healthier Rental Sector in the UK", November 2004 (Paper - PDF 13kb)
• "The Arithmetic of Renewable Energy", October 2004 (Paper - PDF 18kb)
• "How Should We React to World University League Tables?", October 2004 (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "Rationality Meets the Wilder Side of Life", September 2004 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?", September 2004 (Paper - PDF 470kb)
• "Zero Gravity", August 2004 (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "Mind the Gap", July 2004 (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "Learning about Learning", July 2004 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "How Long Will You Live? Think Again", July 2004 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Updated Oil Price and US Unemployment Graph: Figures and Data", with Alan Carruth and Mark Hooker, May 2004 (Graph - PDF 20kb) (Data - XLS 150kb)
• "'Matching' Scholarships", May 2004 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Too Little Friendship?", April 2004 (Paper - PDF 46kb)
• "Letter from South Africa", April 2004 (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "The Case for Different Income Tax Rates in Different Regions", March 2004 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "The Coming Invasion of Great Britain", Febuary 2004 (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "Will Higher Education Take the Lower Road?", January 2004 (Paper - PDF 72kb)
• "Housing, Again", January 2004 (Paper - PDF 23kb)

2003 Papers

• "Debt and Doom?", December 2003 (Paper - PDF 22kb)
• "Are You One of the 2 Million? Seeking Work-Life Balance: Part 1", November 2003 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Are You One of the 2 Million? Seeking Work-Life Balance: Part 2", November 2003 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Now UCEA and Now ...", November 2003 (Paper - 8kb)
• "Gender Discrimination? Yes but No", October 2003 (Paper - PDF 89kb)
• "Rank is What Matters", August 2003 (Paper - PDF 46kb)
• "Universities and Academic Leaders", June 2003 (Paper - PDF59kb)
• "The Economics of Love", May 2003 (Paper - PDF 57kb)
• "Do Law and Economics, Young Woman", May 2003 (Paper - PDF 63kb)
• "The Mathematical Case for Private Universities in the UK", April 2003 (Paper - PDF 62kb)
• "Work-Life Balance and the Rest of Our Lives", April 2003 (Paper - PDF 66kb)
• "Universities, Quality and the Future", April 2003 (Paper - PDF 101kb)
• "Public Policy and Public Toilets (Yes Really)", April 2003 (Paper - PDF 58kb)
• "The Economics and Psychology of Humour", March 2003 (Paper - PDF 57kb)
• "Does Inequality Reduce Happiness? Evidence from the States of the USA from the 1970s to the 1990s", March 2003 (Paper - 119kb)
• "If You Want to Live, Get Promoted", March 2003 (Paper - PDF 52kb)
• "Paying Vice Chancellors Sensibly", February 2003 (Paper - PDF 43kb)
• "If You Want an Enjoyable Job, What Should You Do?", January 2003. (Paper - PDF 72kb)
• "Ideas on Public Profile and External Communications: A Training and Advice Session for PhD students and Junior Faculty", January 2003. (Paper - PDF 83kb)

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2002 Papers

• "Well-Being in Panels", with Andrew Clark, December 2002. (Paper - PDF 234kb)
• "The Chess Player vs. The Prime Minister", December 2002. (Paper - PDF 64kb)
• "The Great 2003-2005 Crash in Britain's Housing Market", November 2002. (Paper - PDF 54kb)
• "It is a Crisis of Quality", November 2002. (Paper - PDF 55kB)
• "Are You Happy At Work? Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance in the US and Europe", November 2002. (Paper - PDF 168kb)
• "Homes, Sex, and The Asymmetry Hypothesis", October 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Why Iraq Reminds Us We Need Nuclear Energy", Sept 2002. (Paper- PDF 11kb)
• "Is it Money or Marriage that Keeps People Alive?", with Jonathan Gardner, August 2002. (Paper - PDF 87kb) BBC Online
• "A Statistical Analysis of the Prices of Personalised Number Plates in Britain", with Matthew Corder, August 2002. (Paper - PDF 50kb) ( Press release)
• "Performance-Related Pay, Yes", August 2002. (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "The Economics and Sociology of Food and Obesity: Let's be Libertarians", August 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "So Are We Getting Happier?", August 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Facing up to the Data on Racial Prejudice", July 2002. (Paper - PDF 14kb)
• "How Does Education Affect Mental Well-Being and Job Satisfaction?", with Jonathan Gardner, June 2002. (Paper - PDF 55kb)
• "Cupid, Statistics, and the Economics of Divorce", June 2002. (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "No, We Should Not Worry about Student Debt", May 2002. (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Is Life Just a Search for Status? Part 1: Dominant Baboons and British Civil Servants", May 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Is Life Just a Search for Status? Part 2: On Watch in Biarritz and St Tropez", May 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Peer Effects In Universities", May 2002. (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "London's Public-Sector Workers Need to be Paid 50 % More Than Those in the North", March 2002. (Paper - PDF 26kb)
• "One Percent Not 33 Dollars", March 2002. (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Do Doctors Work?", March 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Road Pricing Around the World", with Anna Navidski, March 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "The Green-Eyed Monster and Social Policy", February 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "It is Time for a Group of British Universities to Break Away", February 2002.(Paper - PDF 16kb)
• "The Extraordinary Effects of Marriage", January 2002. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence", with Chris Wilson, January 2002. (Paper - PDF 139kb)
• "In Managing People, Universities are Behind the Times", January 2002. (Paper - PDF 13kb)

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2001 Papers

• "Universities are Not in the Usefulness Business", December 2001. (Paper - PDF 20kb)
• "Internet use: the digital divide", with Jonathan Gardner, November 2001. (Paper - PDF 73kb)
• "A Plot of the Real Oil Price against the Unemployment Rate", with Alan Carruth and Mark Hooker, November 2001. (Graph - PDF 19kb) (Data - XLS 84kb)
• "Let's Keep Rising UK Unemployment in Perspective", November 2001. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Inequality and Freedom in 2001", November 2001. (Paper - PDF 13kb)
• "Shifting World Power and the Future", October 2001. (Paper - PDF 13kb)
• "What Has Been Happening to the Quality of Workers' Lives in Britain?", with Jonathan Gardner, October 2001. (Paper - PDF 117kb)
• "Fear is the Major Cost of Recessions", October 2001. (Paper - PDF 13kb)
• "The Macroeconomics of Happiness", with Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, October 2001. (Paper - PDF 175kb)
• "Moving for Job Reasons", with Jonathan Gardner and Gaëlle Pierre, September 2001. (Paper - PDF 113kb)
• "A New Economic Policy to Tackle Global Warming", August, 2001 (Paper - PDF 11kb)
• "Why Students and Their Parents Should Press for High University Fees", July, 2001 (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "An Economist's View of League Tables", May, 2001 (Paper - PDF 17kb)
• "Does Money Buy Happiness? A Longitudinal Study Using Data on Windfalls", with Jonathan Gardner, March, 2001 (Paper - PDF 97kb)
• "What Has Been Happening to Job Satisfaction in Britain?", with Jonathan Gardner, updated March, 2001. (Paper - PDF 38kb)
• "Get us Moving, Tony", Feb., 2001 (Paper - PDF 13kb)
• "Can the 'New Economy' Really Survive Expensive Oil?", Jan., 2001 (Paper - PDF 13kb)

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2000 Papers

• "Fuel Taxes II", October, 2000. (Paper - PDF 25kb)
• "Holding the Line: The Economic Case for High Fuel Taxes", September, 2000. (Paper - PDF 10kb)
• "Setting Public-Sector Pay More Sensibly by Region", August, 2000. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "Wellbeing Over Time in Britain and the USA", with David Blanchflower, July, 2000. (Paper - PDF 85kb)
• "Is Something Wrong with Work-Life Balance? A Look at International Data", June 2000. (Paper - PDF 20kb)
• Table: Latest Data on Job Satisfaction Across Nations, May 2000. (Paper - PDF 9kb)
• "The Fees Debate", May 2000. (Paper - PDF 14kb)
• "Notes for USS Pension Members", May 2000. (Paper - PDF 15kb)
• "Is the UK Moving Up the International Wellbeing Rankings?", with David Blanchflower, May 2000. (Paper - PDF 149kb)
• "How Should we Treat the Unemployed?", May 2000. (Paper - PDF 12kb)
• "The Fall of 13 Years Ago", April 2000. (Paper - PDF 8kb)
• "Updated Real Oil Price and US Unemployment Figure and Data, April 2000", with Alan Carruth and Mark Hooker, March 2000. (Paper - PDF 30kb)
• "Why Tax People for Moving? A Non-Technical Paper on Stamp Duty", March 2000. (Paper - PDF 9kb)
• "Is Recession 2000 in the Pipeline? A Non-Technical Paper", March 2000. (Paper - PDF 12kb)

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1999 Papers

• "Commuting in Great Britain in the 1990s", with Andrew Benito (December 1999) (Paper - PDF 69kb) BBC Online
• "A Non-Technical Introduction to the Economics of Happiness" (December 1999) (Paper - PDF 17kb)
• "The Rising Well-Being of the Young", with D. Blanchflower (December 1999) (Paper - PDF 115kb)
• "Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA", with D. Blanchflower (November 1999) (Paper- PDF) BBC Online
• "A Note on the Upward Trend in Young Male Suicides" (November 1999) (Paper - PDF)
• "Low Real Oil Prices not a New Paradigm" (October 1999). (Paper - PDF)
• "Well-Being, Insecurity and the Decline of American Job Satisfaction", with David G. Blanchflower (July 1999) (Paper - PDF).
• "Signs of Disintegration: A Report on UK Economics PhDs and ESRC Studentship Demand", with Stephen Machin (June 1999) (Paper - PDF)
• "The Housing Market and Europe's Unemployment: A Non-Technical Paper" (May 1999) (Paper - PDF) BBC Online
• "The Determinants of Job-Satisfaction in Britain", with Jonathan A. Gardner (March 1999) (Paper - PDF)

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Papers from 1996, 1997 and 1998

• "What Can Recent Labour Research Teach Us about Macroeconomics?", with Philip Trostel (October 1998) (Paper - PDF).
• "Unemployment, Well-Being and Wage Curves in Eastern Europe", with David G. Blanchflower (December 1998) (Paper - PDF 75kb).
• "The Missing Piece of the Unemployment Puzzle", Inaugural Lecture, November 1997. (Pape - PDF)
• "Theory of Homes and Jobs" (September 1997). (Paper - PDF).
• "A Conjecture on the Explanation for High Unemployment in the Industrial Nations: Part I" (December 1996). (Paper - PDF).
• "A Study of Labour Markets and Unemployment in Eastern Europe: A Report for the ILO", with D. Blanchflower
  
• "Relative Income and the Ultimatum Game", with C. Vermeersch and M. Williams
• "The Macroeconomics of Happiness", with R. Di Tella and R. MacCulloch. (Paper - PDF 80kb).
• "Quasi Labour Mobility: The Economics of Commuting in Great Britain", with A. Benito.

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Teaching

• EC914 The Market for Labour

Students

• Nattavudh Powdthavee: Perceived Quality of Life Data in the Developing Countries. Labour and Development Economics. Happiness.
• Alexander Herzog-Stein: Labour Economics, Game Theory, Strategic Bargaining
• Ulli Stein: Labour Economics, Pension Systems in the UK and Germany, Microeconomic Theory
• Matthew Rablen: Psychological Theories of Utility and Happiness.
• Andrea Salvatori: Labour Economics, Microeconometrics, Subjective Well-Being Data
• Chris Boyce: Social Comparisons, Status and Subjective Well-Being Data

Departmental Responsibilities

• Careers Liaison

University Responsibilities

• Advisor on U.S. Strategy

Home Ownership Data

(i)Data (ii) Data Description.

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