Research

Published

1. Han, J., & Kaiser, C. (2024). Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades. Journal of Population Economics, 37(1), 1-25.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-00982-4. [Download preprint]

2. Kaiser, C., Oswald A.J. (2022). The Scientific Value of Numerical Measures of Human Feelings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), 1-7, e2210412119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210412119. (Open access) .

3. Kaiser, C., Oswald A.J. (2022). Redistribution, Well-being, and the Problem of the Unknown Reporting Function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(50), 1-3, e2217750119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217750119. (Open access) .

4. McGuire, J., Kaiser, C., Bach-Mortensen, A. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective wellbeing and mental health in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Human Behaviour. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01252-z. [Download preprint] 

5. Kaiser, C. (2022). Using memories to assess the intrapersonal comparability of wellbeing reports. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 193, 410-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.009. [Download preprint]

6. Kaiser, C. (2022). Whence the Happiness Revolution? A Book Review of Richard Easterlin’s An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00519-0.

7. Kaiser, C., Trinh, N.A. (2021) Positional, mobility and reference effects: How does social class affect life satisfaction in Europe? European Sociological Review. 37(5), 713-730.  https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa067. [Download preprint]

8. Betthaeuser, B., Kaiser, C., Trinh,  N.A.  (2021). Regional Variation in Inequality of Educational Opportunity across Europe. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 7, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211019890. (Open access). 

9. Kaiser, C. (2020). People do not adapt. New analyses of the dynamic effects of own and reference income on life satisfaction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 177, 494-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.06.003. [Download preprint]

10. Gugushvili, A., Kaiser, C. (2020). Equality of opportunity is linked to lower mortality in Europe. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 74(2), 151-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212540. (Open access).

11. Kaiser, C., Vendrik, M.C.M. (2019). Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries. In: The Economics of Happiness (pp.27-55). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_2. [Download preprint]

Software

1. Kaiser, C. (2018). DRM: Stata module to fit Sobel’s Diagonal Reference Model. Statistical Software Components S458506. Boston College Department of Economics. https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458506.html.

Work in progress / Under review

1. How much can we learn from happiness data? (Old title: How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research? ) 

(with Maarten Vendrik).  [Download preprint] 

2. Machine Learning in the Prediction of Human Wellbeing

(with Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Niccolo Gentile, Ekaterina Oparina, and Alexandre Tkatchenko). 

R&R at Scientific Reports. [Download preprint] 

3. Quantifying the Wellbeing Cost of Income Inequality. 

[Download draft]

4. Consolidated Trajectories? Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course

(with Philipp Lersch and Nhat An Trinh). Draft available on request. 

5. Rational response behaviour to survey questions. 

Draft available on request.  

6. Suicide and subjective wellbeing in the UK: A statistical inquiry 

(with Andrew J. Oswald and Ekaterina Oparina).

7. Who Lives a Long and Happy Life? Estimates of Individual Differences in Wellbeing-Adjusted Life Years