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. 8136
published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7682
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6761
published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6426
published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (319), 496–512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5966
published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5595
published in: Robert Peccoud (Ed.), Measure For Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, 2011, 99-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4994
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4730
published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (5), 516-538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4414
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4210
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61
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