Papers and Comments Published in Non-Referred Outlets
Update: How did personality affect mental health during the pandemic?, Economics Observatory, February 2024
How has the pandemic affected the mental health of healthcare workers?, Economics Observatory, February 2022
How has personality affected people’s mental health during the pandemic?, Economics Observatory, September 2021
Intelligence is a primary characteristic of people who cooperate, LSE Business Review 2019
Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction, Vox 2019
Michel, C., Sovinsky, M., Proto, E., & Oswald, A. J. (2019). Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction: Cross-national evidence on one million Europeans. In The Economics of Happiness (pp. 217-239). Springer, Cham.
Why societies cooperate , VOX 2018
"Brexit was a cry of financial pain and not the influence of the old" , VOX, 17 October 2017
Sgroi, D., Hills, T. T., O'Donnell, G., Oswald, A. J., & Proto, E. (2017) Understanding happiness: A cage policy report. Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy.
“Building a historical index of happiness using Google Books”, VOX, 18 September 2015
“Measuring historical happiness through digitized books”, IZA Newsroom, 14 August 2015
“Individuals tend to see themselves as more ‘average’ than is the case”, LSE British Politics and Policy, 24 March 2015
“GDP and life satisfaction: New evidence”, VOX, 11 January 2014
“Happiness and voting” VOX, 15 November 2013
“David Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win the next general election”, LSE British Politics and Policy, 9 October 2013
"Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being: Comments on 'Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth by Daniel W.Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers'' (Joint with Peter Hammond and Federica Liberini) in Claudia Sepulveda, Ann Harrison, and Justin Yifu Lin (eds.) ABCDE 2011: Development Challenges in a Postcrisis World, (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013) pp. 339--353.
“Corruption as a barrier to entry”, VOX, 05 November 2010