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• Memories as Anchors: Novel Analyses on the Intrapersonal Comparability of Wellbeing Reports
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• "Estimating the effect of mass shootings on wellbeing"
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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
• World Happiness Report
• 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
• Dr. Wilson Sea
• Prof. Jane Shaw
• Dr. Sabrina Cheung
• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
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• Dr. Lucía Macchia
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• Prof. Andrew Clark
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• Dr. Michael Gill
• Marta Golin
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• Dr. Christian Krekel
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• Jessica Milligan
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• Dr. Edika Quispe-Torreblanca
• Prof. Tali Sharot
• 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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• A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
• The Perfect Number of Hours to Work Every Day? Five
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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
• Conference Partner
• 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