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Richard A. Easterlin

Richard A. Easterlin (decd)

Research Fellow

University of Southern California

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subjective well-being

Richard A. Easterlin is university professor emeritus of economics, University of Southern California. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, past president of the Population Association of America and the Economic History Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. His writings include Growth Triumphant: The 21st Century in Historical Perspective (1996), Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare (1980; 2nd ed. 1987), and Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: the American Experience (1968).

He joined IZA as Research Fellow in November 1999.

Richard was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labor Economics for his outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060

Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey

published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4000

Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa

published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3409

Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71 (2), 130-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2755

Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey

published in: Kenneth C. Land (ed.). Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research, New York and London: Springer, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2584

Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa

published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2494

Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Richard A. Easterlin, Anke Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 742

Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006