RESEARCH
Publications
“Is it possible to raise national happiness?”, with C.Senik, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
WP version: LSE CEP Discussion Paper
Video of the presentation @ LSE.
Media coverage: Le Monde.
Awards: Best paper award, 18th workshop on Social Economy, University of Bologna.
“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
"Sharing meals is associated with greater wellbeing", with J.De Neve, A. Dugan & M. Kaats.
R&R at Scientific Reports.
"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. Submitted.
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. Submitted.
WP version: CEPR Discussion Paper
"When did it happen? Reconstructing wage evolution in light of current wage satisfaction". Resting.
In progress
"Detecting Hidden Divergences in Ordinal Data: Evidence from Income, Happiness, and Ideology", with C. Harrison. Slides available on request.
"Life satisfaction and the survey fingerprint puzzle", with T. Beuchot. Slides available on request.
"The U-shaped curve in assessing students' profiles. Experimental evidence from France", with E. Dagorn and I. Parkes. Draft available on request.
“A reappraisal of emotions universality: the sender approach”, with Y. Funaki.
"Inflation inequality in Europe", with X. Jaravel and M. Ranaldi,
Other publications
"Les malheurs du dîneur solitaire", with C.Senik, note de l'Obserbatoire 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.
“The Italian Job - Voting Preference and Information Aggregation in the 2013 Italian General Elections”, Columbia Economics Review, 2014.