Richard A. Easterlin

Research Fellow

University of Southern California

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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 Publications

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
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