With Alex Bryson ‘The Gender Well-being Gap,’ Social Indicators Research, forthcoming. Was NBER Working Paper #31212. (This NYTimes piece references this paper and quotes my student Cailey.)
With Alex Bryson ‘The Adult Consequences of Being Bullied in Childhood,’ Social Science and Medicine, March 2024.
With Alex Bryson ‘Wellbeing rankings,’ Social Indicators Research, forthcoming
With Alex Bryson ‘Long Covid in the United States,’ Plos One, November 2, 2023
With Alex Bryson and Jackson Spurling ’23 ‘The wage curve after the Great Recession‘, Economica, February 2024.
With Carol Graham and Alan Piper, ‘Happiness and Age – Resolving the Debate‘, National Institute Economic Review, 2023, (Supplemental Material).
With Andy Levin, ‘Diverse views in monetary policy‘, Finance and Development, IMF, March 2023.
‘A Response To ‘Another Attempt To Move Beyond The Cross-Sectional U Shape Of Happiness: A Reply’ By Galambos, Krahn, Johnson And Lachman (2021)’, forthcoming International Journal of Psychiatry.
With Alex Bryson ‘Seasonality and the Female Happiness Paradox‘, Quality and Quantity, February 21, 2023.
With Alex Bryson, “Recessions hurt: does the data show that the world’s major economies are in recessions now?” The International Banker, November 21, 2022.
With Alex Bryson ‘Chronic pain: Evidence from the National Child Development Study,’ PLoS ONE, November 2, 2022.
With Alex Bryson ‘The female happiness paradox,’ Journal of Population Economics.
With Alex Bryson, ‘Recession and deflation‘, The Review of Keynesian Economics, October 25, 2022.
With Ben Artz and Alex Bryson, ‘Unions increase job satisfaction in the United States,’ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, September 8, 2022.
With Alex Bryson, Union membership and job satisfaction over the life course, Industrial Relations, September 3, 2022.
With Alan Piper and Alex Bryson, Is pain associated with subsequent job loss? A panel study for Germany, Kyklos, August 25, 2022.
With Alex Bryson, ‘The economics of walking about and predicting unemployment in the USA‘, National Institute Economic Review, August 19, 2022.
With Alex Bryson, ‘Taking the Pulse of Nations: A Biometric Measure of Well-being,’Economics and Human Biology, August 2022.
With Alex Bryson, ‘Covid and Mental Health in America‘, PLOS One, July 22, 2022.
With Alan Piper, ‘There is a midlife low in well-being in Germany,’ Economics Letters, May 2022.
With Alex Bryson, ‘The Sahm rule and predicting the great recession across OECD countries‘, National Institute Economic Review (2022), 1–51, doi:10.1017/nie.2021.47.
With Donna Feir, ‘Native Americans’ experience of chronic distress in the USA,’ Journal of Population Economics, May 20, 2022.
With Alex Bryson, Further decoding the mystery of American pain: The importance of work, PLOS ONE, January 13, 2022.
With Carol Graham, ‘The U-shape of Happiness: A Response’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, July 26th 2020.
D. Gondek, R. E. Lacey, D. Blanchflower & P. Patalay, “How is the distribution of psychological distress changing over time? Who is driving these changes? Analysis of the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts,” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, November 22nd 2021.
With Carol Graham, ‘The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being: A Critique,’ Social Indicators Research, first online October 20th 2021.
With Alex Bryson and Colin Green, Trade Unions and the well-being of workers, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(2), pp255-277, June 2022.
With Alex Bryson ‘Unemployment and Sleep: Evidence from the United States and Europe‘, Economics and Human Biology, first online July 7th 2021.
With Alex Bryson ‘Union membership peaks in midlife’ British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2021;1–28.
With David Bell ‘The U-shape of happiness in Scotland‘, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, May 17th 2021 and NBER WP #28144
Interview with Professor David Blanchflower on wellbeing across the lifespan, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
With David Bell, ‘Underemployment in the United States and Europe‘, ILR Review, 74(1), January 2021, pp. 56–94
Unions raise worker wellbeing, Richard Freeman, David Blanchflower, Alex Bryson 11 November 2020
Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 145 Countries, Journal of Population Economics, 2021 volume 34, pp. 575-624
With Andrew Clark, Children, Unhappiness and family Finances, Journal of Population Economics volume 34, pp 625-653
With Andrew Oswald, ‘Trends in Extreme Distress in the United States, 1993–2019, American Journal of Public Health, First online 20th August 2020.
‘Unhappiness and age’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 176, August pp. 461-488.
With David Bell, ‘US and UK labour markets before and during the COVID-19 crash’ National Institute Economic Review No. 252 May 2020, pp. R52-R69.
‘Experienced Life Cycle Satisfaction in Europe: A Comment,’ Review of Behavioural Economics, 2020, Vol. 7: No. 2, pp 197-200.
Bell, DNF, Blanchflower DG (2019) ‘The well-being of the overemployed and the underemployed and the rise in depression in the UK’, J Econ Behav Organ 161 May: 180-196.
With David Bell, ‘Underemployment in Europe and the United States‘, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 74(1), January 2021, pp. 56-94
With Andrew Oswald, ‘Unhappiness and pain in Modern America: a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham’s Happiness for All?‘, the Journal of Economic Literature, 2019, June, 57(2), pp. 385-402.
With David Bell, ‘The lack of wage growth and the falling NAIRU‘, National Institute Economic Review, No. 245, August, pp. R1-R16, 2018
With David Bell, ‘Underemployment and the Lack of Wage Pressure in the UK‘, National Institute Economic Review, No. 243, February, pp. R53-R61, 2018
‘Happiness (2016) in Subjective Well-being Bulletin, Public Policy Observatory –POLIS- of Universidad Icesi in Cali-Colombia.
With Andrew Oswald, ‘Antidepressants and Age: A New Form of Evidence for U-shaped Well-being Through Life‘, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 127 (2016) pp. 46–58
‘Hard times are only going to get harder British Journal of Sociology, 2015, 66(3), September, 2015, pp.577-583.
‘As Good as it Gets? The UK Labour Market in Recession and Recovery‘, National Institute Economic Review February 2015 231: pp. F76-F80
With David Bell, ‘Youth unemployment in Greece: measuring the challenge‘, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 29th January 2015
With David N.F. Bell, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro, ‘The happiness tradeoff between unemployment and inflation’, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Supplement to vol 46(2), October, 2014, pp. 117-141
With David N.F. Bell (2014), ‘Labour Market Slack in the UK‘, National Institute Economic Review No. 229 August, F4-F11
With Steve Machin ‘Falling real wages‘, Centrepiece, Centre for Economic Perfomance, Spring 2014
With David Bell ‘Underemployment in the UK revisited’, National Institute Economic Review, NO 224, pp. F8-F22, May 2013
With Andrew Oswald and Sara Stewart-Brown, ‘Is psychological well-being linked to the consumption of fruit and vegetables?’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, 114, pp. 785-801.
With David Bell, ‘Young people and the Great Recession‘, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 2011 27: pp. 241-267
With David Bell, ‘Youth unemployment in Europe and the United States’, Nordic Economic Policy Review, number 1, 2011, pp. 11-38
With Andrew Oswald, ‘International happiness: a new view on the measure of performance‘, Academy of Management Perspectives, February 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 1, pp. 6-22
With David Bell, ‘Youth underemployment in the UK in the Great Recession‘, National Institute Economic Review, January 2011, pp. R1-R11
With David Bell, ‘UK unemployment in the Great Recession‘, National Institute Economic Review, 214, October, pp. R3-R25.
With David Bell, ‘Recession and Unemployment in the OECD‘, CESifo Forum, Issue 1, March 2010
With Andrew Oswald, “The U-Shape Without Controls: A response to Glenn “, Social Science and Medicine, 69, pp. 486-488.
“Where next for the UK economy?“, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 56(1), 2009, February, pp. 1-23.
With Andrew J. Oswald and Bert Van Landeghem, “Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7:2/3, 528-538.
With Chris Shadforth, “Fear, Unemployment and Migration“, Economic Journal, 2009, 119(535), February, F136-F182.
“Minority self-employment in the United States and the impact of affirmative action programs” Annals of Finance, 2009, 5:3-4, 361-396.
With Alex Bryson, “The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors” Economica Volume: 77 Issue: 305 Pages: 92-109, January 2010
With Andrew Oswald “Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?“, Social Science & Medicine, 2008, 66(6), 1733-1749
With Chris Shadforth, “Entrepreneurship in the UK” Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2007) 257–364
With Andrew Oswald ‘Hypertension and Happiness across Nations’, Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 218-233 (Paper – PDF 168kb).
With Alex Bryson and John Forth, “Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004,” Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38(4), pp. 285-302
“International Patterns of Union Membership,” British Journal of Industrial Relations, March 2007, Volume 45, Number 1, March 2007
With David Bell, “The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy,” Scottish Journal of Political Economy, May 2007 – Vol. 54 Issue 2 Page 151-307
With Andrew Oswald, “On Leigh-Wolfers and Wellbeing in Australia,” The Australian Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 185-186, June 2006
With Andrew Oswald, “Happiness and the Huma Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” The Australian Economic Review, Volume 38, Number 3, September 2005, pp. 307-318(12).
“Self-Employment: More May Not Be Better,” Swedish Economic Policy Review vol 11(2), Fall 2004, pp. 15-74. Comments by Magnus Henrekson. Reply to Henrekson Comments.
With Alex Bryson, “Union Relative Wage Effects in the USA and the UK,” Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 2004, pp. 133-140.
With Andrew Oswald, “Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study,” NBER Working Paper W10499, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106(3), 2004, pp. 393–415.
With Andrew Oswald, “Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA,” Journal of Public Economics Volume 88, Issues 7-8, July 2004, Pages 1359-1386.
With Alex Bryson, “What effects do unions have on wages now and would Freeman and Medoff be surprised?“, 2004, Journal of Labor Research, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer, pp. 383-414 and in “What do unions do?: the evidence twenty years later” edited by James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman. (Appendix Tables)
With Philip Levine and David Zimmerman, “Discrimination In The Small Business Credit Market,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 85, Issue 4 – November 2003, Pages 930-943.
“Unemployment, Well-Being and Wage Curves in Eastern and Central Europe“, Journal of Japanese and International Economies. Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2001, Pages 364-402
With Andrew Oswald and Alois Stutzer, “Latent Entrepreneurship Across Nations,” European Economic Review, 45(4-6) pp. 680-691, May 2001.
“Self-Employment in OECD Countries“, Labour Economics, 7, September 2000, pp. 471-505.
With Andrew Oswald, “What Makes an Entrepreneur?“,Journal of Labor Economics, January, 16(1) pp. 26-60, 1998.
With Simon Burgess, “New technology and jobs: comparative evidence from a two country study”, Economics of Innovation
and New Technology, vol 5, 1998.
With Richard Freeman, “The attitudinal legacy of communist labor relations“, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1997, vol. 50 no. 3, pp. 438-459.
With Andrew Oswald and Peter Sanfey, “Wages, profits and rent sharing”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 227-25
With Stephen Machin, “Product market competition, wages and productivity: international evidence from establishment level data“, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 41/42, pp. 220-253, 1996.
With Simon Burgess, “Job creation and job destruction in Great Britain: 1980-1990“, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October, 1996, pp. 17-38.
With Andrew Oswald, “An introduction to the wage curve“, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer, 1995, pp. 153-167.
With James Sargent, “Obesity and stature in adolescence and earnings in young adulthood“, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1994, 148, pp. 681-687.
With Andrew Oswald, “Estimating a wage curve for Britain“, 1973-1990′, Economic Journal, September, 1994, pp.1025-1043.
With Bruce Meyer, “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Young Self-Employed in Australia and the United States“, Small Business Economics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-20, 1994.
With Jim Sargent and Ardis Olson, “Adolescent obesity and subsequent labor market performance: do fat children earn less as adults?”, American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1993, 147(4).
With Andrew Oswald, “Testing for a U-shaped wage curve: a response to Sessions“, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1993, 95(2), pp. 245-248.
With Andrew Oswald and Neil Millward, “Unionism and employment behaviour“, Economic Journal, July 1991, pp. 815-834.
“Fear, unemployment and pay flexibility.” Economic Journal, May 1991, pp. 483-496.
“The economic effects of profit sharing“, International Journal of Manpower, 12, 1, pp. 3-9, January, 1991.
With Richard Freeman, “Going different ways: unionism in the US and other OECD countries“, Industrial Relations, Winter 1992, pp. 56-79 reprinted in Labor Market Institutions and the Future Role Of Unions edited by M. Bognanno and M. Kleiner, Blackwell, 1992.
With Andrew Oswald and Mario Garrett, “Insider power in wage determination“, Economica, 57, pp. 143-170, 1990.
With Andrew Oswald, “The wage curve“. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 92, pp. 215-235, 1990. Reprinted in Unemployment and wage determination in Europe, edited by B. Holmlund and K.G. Lofgren, Basil Blackwell.
“Bargaining into the 1990s: where now?“, International Journal of Manpower, 11, 7, pp. 32-39, November, 1990.
With Andrew Oswald, “The determination of white-collar pay.” Oxford Economic Papers, 42, pp. 356-378, 1990.
With Andrew Oswald, “Comment on house prices“, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, pp. 137-143, 1989.
With Andrew Oswald, “Profit related pay: prose discovered“, Economic Journal, September 98, pp. 720-730, 1988.
With Andrew Oswald, “Internal and external influences upon pay settlements: new survey evidence.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, 3, pp. 363-370, 1988.
With Neil Millward, “Trade unions and employment change: an analysis of British establishment data.” European Economic Review, 32, pp. 717-726, 1988.
With Andrew Oswald, “Profit sharing: can it work?” Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 39, pp. 1-19, 1987. Reprinted in P. Sinclair (Ed.), Prices, Quantities and Expectations, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
“What effect do unions have on relative wages in Great Britain?” British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 24, 1986, pp. 196-204.
“Wages and concentration in Great Britain.” Applied Economics, vol. 18, 1986, pp. 1025-1038.
With John Cubbin, “Strike propensities at the British workplace.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, February 1986, pp. 19-40.
“Union relative wage effects; a cross-section analysis using establishment data.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, November 1984, pp. 311-332.
“Comparativepay levels in domestically-owned and foreign-owned manufacturing plants: a comment.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, July 1984, pp. 265-267.