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- Physical Pain, Gender, and the Business Cycle in 146 Nations
- Growing up in a Recession Increases Compassion? The Case of Attitudes towards Immigration
- Differences In Racial Resilience During COVID-19
- The Arab Spring, A Setback for Gender Equality? Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
- Maternal Depression and Child Human Capital: A Genetic Instrumental Variables Approach
- Life Satisfaction Prior to, and During, the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Taking a Wellbeing Years Approach to Policy Choice
- The SDGs and Human Well-Being: a Global Analysis of Synergies, Trade-offs, and Regional Differences
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- Das Wohlbefinden im Zentrum aller Strategien – ein Allheilmittel?
- Xi Upstages Trump With Carbon Neutral Pledge
- Inequality in the Workplace Reduces Employees' Motivation — Even Among Those Who Stand to Benefit from Unfair Advantages
- Building Trust to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries
- Research: Why a Covid-19 World Feels Both Tiring and Hopeful for College Students
- Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.
- Econoom Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: 'Economische Groei Betekent Niet Meer Welzijn'
- Why the Businesses of the Future Are Honing in on Cornwall
- Is it Time We Learned to Live with the Coronavirus?
- Why a Four Day Working Week Could Save Us And the Planet
- Das Glück Neu Erfahren
- How Are We Coping During the Lockdown?
- Europe Inches Its Way Out of Lockdown
- When Will The Pandemic Cure Be Worse Than The Disease?
- How Will Humans, By Nature Social Animals, Fare When Isolated?
- 3 Tips To Avoid WFH Burnout
- Wie steht’s ums Glück?
- Research Finds Age 50 Is The Worst Time To Be Unemployed
- Coronavirus Lays Bare The Trauma Of Losing Your Job
- How To Maintain Your Mental Health During A Global Pandemic?
- Business Matters: UK Pubs and Restaurants Told To Close
- What The World's Happiest Country Can Teach Us About Surviving The Coronavirus Crisis
- The World's Happiest Countries Revealed: Finland Keeps The Top Spot, Afghanistan Is Ranked The Bleakest and The UK and U.S Both Climb The Table
- Gardening and Exercise ‘Are The Secrets To Happiness’
- Choosing To Be Happy Can Help During Covid-19 Outbreak
- A Davos Conversation On Maximizing Happiness, Not GDP
- Lessons In Happiness: How A Short Course Can Boost Your Wellbeing
- The Action for Happiness Course on BBC News
- Happy Workers Are More Productive, Research Shows
- Whistle While You Work
- Why Improving Workplace Happiness Is Key To Solving The Decade-Long Productivity Slump
- A Big New Study Finds Compelling Evidence That Happy Workers Are More Productive
- Here Is The 'Conclusive' Evidence Happy Workers Are More Productive
- Why Learn To Be Happy?
- The Flawed Era Of GDP Is Finally Coming To An End
- Employee Happiness and Business Success Are Linked
- Hate Your job? Being Unhappy At Work Might Have Long-Term Health Effects
- Employee Wellbeing, Productivity, and Firm Performance: Evidence From 1.8 Million Employees
- Future Proof: Shortening Work-Week For Greater Productivity
- Britons Find Reasons To Be Cheerful In A Glummer World
- Prof. Sabina Alkire
- Prof. Lord Layard
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- Prof. Andrew Clark
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- Jessica Milligan
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- Dr. Adam Shriver
- Prof. Andrew Stephen
- Dr. Eileen Tipoe
- Prof. Tyler VanderWeele
- Jakob Zeitler
- How Threatening are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?
- The Motivational Cost of Inequality: Opportunity Gaps Reduce the Willingness to Work
- Why Time Poverty Matters for Individuals, Organisations and Nations
- Life Satisfaction and Its Discontents
- Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns
- Three Tips to Avoid WFH Burnout
- People Do Not Adapt. New Analyses of the Dynamic Effects of Own and Reference Income on Life Satisfaction
- Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
- When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits
- Inequality and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries
- Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being
- Cities and Happiness: A Global Ranking and Analysis
- (Un)Happiness and Voting in US Presidential Elections
- Bowling with Trump: Economic anxiety, racial identification, and well-being in the 2016 Presidential election
- A Local Community Course that Raises Mental Wellbeing and Pro-Sociality
- Does Employee Happiness Have an Impact on Productivity?
- Beyond Material Poverty: Why Time Poverty Matters For Individuals, Organisations, and Nations
- What Makes For A Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data
- The Subjective Well-being Political Paradox: Evidence From Latin America
- Getting Your Team To Do More Than Meet Deadlines
- Employee Wellbeing, Productivity, and Firm Performance
- Positional, Mobility and Reference effects: How Does Social Class Affect Life Satisfaction in Europe?
- Valuing Time Over Money Predicts Happiness After A Major Life Transition: A Pre-registered Longitudinal Study of Graduating Students
- Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New evidence for European countries
- Buying Happiness In an Unequal World: Rank of Income More Strongly Predicts Wellbeing in Unequal Countries
- Leisure Beliefs and The Subjective Well-Being of Nations
- The Motivational Cost of Inequality: Pay Gaps Reduce the Willingness to Pursue Rewards
- Annual Report 2019-20
- Devi Khanna
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- Taking a Well-Being-Years Approach to Policy Choice
- Hijacking Anxiety: How Trump Weaponised Social Alienation Into ‘Racialised Economics’
- A bird’s eye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the UK
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- Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?
- Prof. Carol Graham
- A Happy Possibility About Happiness (And Other Subjective) Scales
- Can I Get A Little Less Satisfaction, Please?
- Frequency of Self-reported Unpleasant Events and Harm in a Mindfulness-Based Program in Two General Population Samples
- Can schools make our children happier? Exploring adolescents' wellbeing and mental health in PISA studies
- Back to Bentham? A discussion on the optimal distribution of wellbeing
- Why It’s Too Soon To Scrap The Office
- Wellbeing Research Centre Director Joins Selection Panel for Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Mayors Challenge 2021
- Using memories to assess the intrapersonal comparability of wellbeing reports
- Happy Times: Identification from Ordered Response Data
- COVID-19 and Subjective Well-Being: Separating the Effects of Lockdowns from the Pandemic
- Workplace Happiness: Evidence from a large internet job site
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 2
- How to Build Back Happier in the Post COVID-19 Era
- A Longer Shortlist Increases The Consideration of Female Candidates in Male-Dominant Domains
- Dr. Mark Fabian
- Business Leaders Need to Remember: You Are Still Mortal
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 1
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 3
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 4
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 5
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 6
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 7
- Fundamental Issues In The Measurement Of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) - Part 8
- Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward
- Positive Thinking: Searching for Lasting Happiness
- Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak
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- Hope, Despair, and Divided Futures in post-COVID America: Lessons from Surveys of Low-Income Adolescents of Different Races and Places
- Mental Health Is A Matter of Public Health, Too
- Beyond GDP: How Sustainable Development Improves Human Wellbeing
- The Role of Schools in Early Adolescents’ Mental Health: Findings From the MYRIAD Study
- A Multicountry Perspective on Gender Differences in Time Use During COVID-19
- Could Spain's Four-Day Working Week Save The Planet?
- The Pandemic Has Changed The Shape Of Global Happiness
- Finland Ranked Happiest Country In The World - Again
- The 20 Happiest Countries In The World In 2021 (Guess Where The U.S. Ranked?)
- UK Falls In Global Happiness Ranking, With Mental Health A Covid `Casualty´
- Finland Remains World's Happiest Country For The 4th Year In A Row – Even During A Pandemic
- This Country Has Just Been Named The Happiest In The World
- Nell'anno della pandemia la Finlandia è il paese più felice al mondo, l'Italia sale al 25° posto
- The True Returns To The Choice Of Occupation And Education
- COVID-19 Committee on Measuring Wellbeing
- Luana DeBorst
- Covid-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities
- 3 Hidden Insights From This Year’s World Happiness Report
- Happier At Work. The Lessons Business Leaders Must Learn From The Pandemic.
- ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’: Why The Four-Day Week Is The Future
- What Makes a Happy Country?
- Moral Credentials and the 2020 Presidential Primary
- The Economics of Happiness: A Conversation with Richard Easterlin
- A Computational and Neural Model for Happiness
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- Wellbeing Research & Policy Conference 2022
- World Happiness Report: Wie lässt sich Glück messen?
- The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Well-being in the UK: An Analysis of the Moderating Role of Social Capital
- The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think
- Regional Variation in Inequality of Educational Opportunity Across Europe
- Green Book Supplementary Guidance: Wellbeing
- Feelings and Actions
- Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
- ISQOLS Best Dissertation Award Won By Alumna Lucía Macchia
- Working During Non-Standard Work Time Undermines Intrinsic Motivation
- Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations
- The ‘Great Realization’ Has Inspired People To Seek Happiness In Their Jobs And Careers
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- Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Oparina
- Worker Well-being Is Pivotal In Increasing Business Productivity, Says Economist De Neve
- The Curse of Off-Hours Email
- Prof. Andrew Oswald
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- Teachers “Finding Peace in a Frantic World”: An Experimental Study of Self-Taught and Instructor-Led Mindfulness Program Formats
- The Quality of Society and Happiness
- Exploring The Relationship Between Violence and Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania
- Your Colleagues Make You Happy At Work
- The Anna Karenina Income Effect: Well-Being Inequality Decreases with Income
- Accounting for Life’s Ups and Downs: Using High-Frequency Experience Sampling Data to Explain Within-Person Variability and Asymmetry in Happiness
- Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Multidimensional Approach
- Be Intentional About How You Spend Your Time Off
- Do Different Reasons for Migration lead to Differences in Subjective Well-being?
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- Dr. George Mackerron
- Social Capital Reduces the Impact of Social Comparisons on Subjective Well-being: Evidence from International Datasets
- If You Thought Hybrid Working Was Hard, Wait Until 2022
- Using Memories to Assess the Intrapersonal Comparability of Wellbeing Reports
- The Environmental Burden of the International Job Market for Economists
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Cash Transfers on Subjective Well-being and Mental Health
- Prof. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve Discusses Indeed's Work Happiness Score on BBC World
- More Than One Third of UK Employees Are Unhappy in Their Jobs
- The New Zealander Trying to Revolutionise the Working Week: ‘It’s a Rational Business Decision’
- Finland Named World’s Happiest Country for Fifth Year Running
- Europe Dominated the Happiest Countries in the World List. What About the United States?
- It's Wellbeing, Stupid
- Executive Assistant
- Policy Stringency and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From 15 Countries
- The Case for Managerial Decency
- Why You Should Think Twice About Wanting to Work on Weekends
- Conference Livestream
- Human Wellbeing and Machine Learning
- Workforce Happiness Is A Strategy, Not An Endpoint
- Sarah Cunningham
- An evaluation of individual-level mental health interventions in British workplaces
- Four-Day Week? It’s a Revolution For Men
- Launch of the World Wellbeing Movement
- Aversion to inequalities in subjective wellbeing: an online survey of the UK public
- Why Billionaires Like MacKenzie Scott And Jack Dorsey Are Donating Millions To This Nonprofit That Gives Cash To The Poor
- Economists must get more in touch with our feelings
- Education Post-Doc
- Emotions, Risk Attitudes and Patience
- Jonathan Whitney
- Education Makes You Happier – If You Are Employed
- Wellbeing scientists named among Nobel-class researchers
- Dr. William Fleming
- Sabina Funk
- International recognition for Wellbeing Research Centre Fellows
- Dr. George Ward
- Feelings integers are highly predictive of future human behaviour, research shows
- How People Rate Pizza, Jobs and Relationships Is Surprisingly Predictive of Their Behavior
- The scientific value of numerical measures of human feelings
- The well-being cost of inflation inequalities
- “Inflation inequalities” may drive disparity in individuals’ wellbeing
- Leoni Boyle
- Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions
- Empirical Facts About Normative Values
- The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
- How much money makes you happy?
- Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
- Research reveals ‘deep asymmetry’ in life satisfaction recall
- Feeling Good Is Feeling Better
- Cherise Regier
- Annual Report 2022 published by Wellbeing Research Centre
- Worldview defence and self-determination theory explain the return of racial voting: Evidence from the 2016 US election
- The Meat Eater Problem
- Dr. Wanying Zhou
- Happiness study reveals a critical difference between two types of people
- Four-day week trial confirms working less increases wellbeing and productivity
- Workplace wellbeing: how to make it better – and what makes it worse
- Inequality, well-being, and the problem of the unknown reporting function
- McKinsey helps co-found global movement promoting employee wellbeing and health
- The Well-Being Cost of Inflation Inequalities
- Money Box Live: Happiness and Money
- Causal identification with subjective outcomes
- Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being
- Twins, Income and Happiness: Evidence from China
- How To Navigate The Challenges Of Being A First-Time Founder
- Measuring the value of the digital economy
- Does mindfulness improve test scores?
- Book Launch | Wellbeing: Science and Policy
- Assessing the neutrality, comparability, and linearity of subjective wellbeing measurements: a pilot study
- How do we feel about inequality in wellbeing?
- Amygdala: The brain mechanism behind human wellbeing
- Employees’ Growing Expectations at Work
- Make wellbeing central to public policy
- Wellbeing: Science and Policy book launched at LSE
- Dr. Jose Marquez
- World Happiness Report 2023: Happiest countries prove resilient despite overlapping crises
- Exploring human valuations of wellbeing
- Covid has not affected people’s happiness around world, study reveals
- Finland remains world's happiest country on International Day of Happiness
- Global happiness unchanged by COVID pandemic, surprising experts
- These are the world’s 10 happiest countries in 2023 (and most of them are in Europe)
- COVID did not affect happiness around the world, study reveals
- Research shows happiness is the new performance indicator. This is how managers can support it
- Machine Learning in the Prediction of Human Wellbeing
- The Welfare Cost of Inequality
- Estimating effects of individual-level workplace mental wellbeing interventions: Cross-sectional evidence from the UK
- Measuring Workplace Wellbeing
- Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance
- Improving wellbeing scales
- Thriving at Oxford Keynote: Wellbeing at Work
- Nature vs. nurture in human wellbeing
- Does Employee Happiness Have an Impact on Productivity?
- Making the four-day week work for Britain
- Happiness predicts compliance with preventive health behaviours during Covid-19 lockdowns
- How we feel matters at work: new research shows first causal link between wellbeing and productivity
- A research presentation by Professor Sir Cary Cooper, CBE
- Studying causality in subjective scales
- Executive Assistant / Marketing Associate
- The business case for investing in employee wellbeing
- Happy staff often make for satisfied shareholders, study finds
- The Gender Wellbeing Gap
- The Economics of Hope
- Happiest companies better in multiple measures of firm performance
- Cathy Talbot
- Workers Resisting the Office Grind Are Suddenly Lonely at Home
- Execs call for mandatory reporting of employee well-being metrics
- Emotions and Demotions
- ISQOLS Keynote: Edward F. Diener Lecture
- Fire & Wire: Wellbeing in the workplace
- Wellbeing in the workplace: A discussion with Oxford's VC
- HSBC announces two-year Research Fellowship in partnership with the University of Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre
- Karolina Korgul
- Inflation may be coming down but its unequal effects can still have a big impact on wellbeing
- Are You Happier Now Than Last Year?
- Das ambivalente Gefühl
- CEOs say we should return to the office for the sake of connection. Workers aren’t buying it just yet
- Unpacking the business case for happiness
- William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View