RESEARCH
Publications
“Is it possible to raise national happiness?”
with C.Senik, Journal of Public Economics, 2026.
WP version: LSE CEP Discussion Paper
Video of the presentation @ LSE.
Media coverage: Financial Times, Le Monde.
Awards: Best paper award, 18th workshop on Social Economy, University of Bologna.
“Sharing meals is associated with greater wellbeing”.
with J.De Neve, A. Dugan & M. Kaats, Scientific Reports, 2026.
“Is motivated memory (just) a matter of mood?”.
with C.Saucet, Experimental Economics, 2025.
Pre-print version: here.
"Sharing meals with others - How sharing meals supports happiness and social connections".
with J.De Neve, A. Dugan & M. Kaats, in World Happiness Report, 2025.
Media coverage: The Economist (I), The Economist (II); The New York Times; The Guardian (I); The Guardian (II); El Pais; BBC; Vox; Fortune, The Standard; La Repubblica; Daily Mail; Independent, The National, Spektrum; Express and Star, UCL News, Nikkei
"The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories".
with C.Saucet, Journal of Health Economics, 2024.
WP version: "The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories", Oxford Dep. of Economics WP, 2024.
"Money and happiness".
with R.Bellaunay & C.Krekel, in Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing. ed. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
“The well-being cost of inflation inequalities”.
Review of Income and Wealth, 2024.
Media coverage: The Conversation, LSE Blog, Business of Fashion, Pub Affairs Bruxelles.
Citations in policy reports: International Monetary Fund, OECD
WP version: "The well-being cost of inflation inequalities", CEP DP, 2022.
“Feeling good is feeling better”
with C.Senik. Psychological Science, 2022.
Media coverage: Sciences Humaines, deutschlandfunkkultur. Science Daily, youtube, Psychology Today,
Study Finds, brunch, NewsWise, PsyBlog, Medium, Technology Networks, MedIndia, ...
WP version: "Feeling good or feeling better?”, IZA DP, 2019.
"The environmental cost of the international job market for economists".
with O.Chanel & M.Raux. Ecological Economics, 2022.
Media coverage: CentrePiece
WP version: "The environmental cost of the international job market for economists", CEP DP, 2022.
“Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Multidimensional Approach”.
with C.Krekel, in Linking Sustainability and Happiness, ed. Springer Nature, 2022.
Post-print version: here.
“Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn”
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017.
Post-print version: here.
Pre-prints & submitted papers
"Does happiness spread within organizations? Evidence from a field experiment in Norway", with T. Hanson, Å. Johnsen and A. Kotsadam. R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
WP version: CEP Discussion Paper
“Why you should measure subjective changes", with C. Kaiser. R&R at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
WP Version: Oxford WRC Working Paper
Video of the presentation @ Univ. of Oxford.
“Estimating time preferences for leisure”; with M.Bigoni, D.Dragone & S.Luchini. R&R at Experimental Economics.
WP version: CEPR Discussion Paper
In progress
"Detecting Hidden Divergences in Ordinal Data: Evidence from Income, Happiness, and Ideology", with C. Harrison. Slides available on request.
"The survey fingerprint. Why you should correct confidence intervals", with T. Beuchot. Draft available on request.
"Teachers’ leniency. Experimental evidence from France", with E. Dagorn and I. Parkes. Draft available on request.
"Inflation inequality in Europe", with X. Jaravel and M. Ranaldi. Slides available on request.
“Fear may not be a universal emotion”, with Y. Funaki.
Other publications
"Les malheurs du dîneur solitaire", with C.Senik, note de l'Observatoire du Bien-être, 2026 – 13 Feb. 2026.
"Why sharing meals can make people happier – what evidence from 142 countries shows", The Conversation, March 20, 2025.
"Inflation may be coming down but its unequal effects can still have a big impact on wellbeing", The Conversation, July 19, 2023.
“Le Bien-être à l’épreuve de l’inflation", with M.Perona, note de l'Obserbatoire du Bien-être, 2022 – 14 Nov. 2022
"The environmental burden of the international job market for economists", with O.Chanel & M.Raux, Vox.eu., 16 Jan. 22.
"When did it happen? Reconstructing wage evolution in light of current wage satisfaction". AMSE WP 2018, Resting.
“The Italian Job - Voting Preference and Information Aggregation in the 2013 Italian General Elections”, Columbia Economics Review, 2014.