Andrew Clark is a CNRS Research Professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). He previously held posts at Dartmouth, Essex, CEPREMAP, DELTA, the OECD and the University of Orléans.

His work has largely focussed on the interface between psychology, sociology and economics; in particular, using job and life satisfaction scores, and other psychological indices, as proxy measures of utility. The broad area is social interactions and social learning.

One research field has been that of relative utility or comparisons (to others like you, to others in the same household, and to yourself in the past), finding evidence of such comparisons with respect to both income and unemployment. This work has spilled over into theoretical and empirical work on evidence for and the implications of following behaviour and learning from others' actions. Recent work has involved collaboration with psychologists to map out habituation to life events (such as job loss, marriage, and divorce) using long-run panel data. In addition, direct measures of utility allow direct tests of popular models of the labour market. In this spirit, his work has looked at unemployment, quits, and labour market rents.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3073
published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 430–447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2840
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2008, 46 (1), 95-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2526
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (529), F222–F243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2406
published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 291-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2169
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 407-426.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1692
Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1610
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (3), 377-400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1573
Andrew E. Clark, Youenn Lohéac
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 763-784
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1489
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1438
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196
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