Standout Papers
- Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory (2001)
- Population Redistribution and Economic Growth (1958)
- Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? (1995)
- Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950: Vol. I, Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables. (1959)
- Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950. Volume 1, Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables (1958)
- Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States 1870-1950: II. Analyses of Economic Change. (1961)
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
2013 StandoutScience
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
2014 Standout
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
2015 StandoutNobel
The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
1986 Standout
Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: Comment
1988
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin
2006
A changing epidemiology of suicide? The influence of birth cohorts on suicide rates in the United States
2014
Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review
2004
The relation of economic status to subjective well-being in developing countries: A meta-analysis.
2008
Wealth and happiness across the world: Material prosperity predicts life evaluation, whereas psychosocial prosperity predicts positive feeling.
2010
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene
2017 StandoutNature
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence.
2003 Standout
A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning
2020 StandoutNatureNobel
Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study
2008
Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing
2014 StandoutNobel
Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894
2003
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
2007 Standout
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
2012 StandoutNobel
The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism
1988
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
2005 StandoutNobel
Addendum: Child Transport, Family Size, and Increase in Human Population During the Neolithic
1972
Happiness and Economic Performance
1997
Ability-Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality, and Economic Growth
2000
Demographics and Automation
2021 StandoutNobel
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
2010 StandoutScience
The Great Escape: A Review of Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100
2006 StandoutNobel
Counting the World's Poor: Problems and Possible Solutions
2001 StandoutNobel
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory
2006 StandoutNobel
The effect of income on fertility.
1969
A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
1992 Standout
A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method
2004 StandoutScienceNobel
Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
2000
Beyond Homo economicus: evidence from experimental economics
2000
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
2011 Standout
Wage and labor supply effects of illness in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: instrumental variable estimates for days disabled
1997
Regional interdependence and forest “transitions”: Substitute deforestation limits the relevance of local reversals
2009
Stages on Life's Way
1992
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A.
2009 Science
Life During Growth
1999
Who Is Happy?
1995 Standout
Will Money Increase Subjective Well-Being?
2002
Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties.
2000 Standout
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
1991 Standout
A computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being
2014
Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital
1997 Standout
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
2006 StandoutNobel
Evaluative and hedonic wellbeing among those with and without children at home
2014 StandoutNobel
The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment
2018 StandoutNobel
Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda
2015
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
2008
Creative Destruction and Subjective Well-Being
2016 StandoutNobel
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being
2010 StandoutNobel
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems
2009
Growth, equality, and history
1985
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
2008 StandoutNobel
Computational Social Science
2009 StandoutScience
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective
2000 StandoutNobel
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children
1976 StandoutNobel
Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress.
1999 Standout
Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction
2016
Parenthood and Happiness: a Review of Folk Theories Versus Empirical Evidence
2011
MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND SUBJECTIVE INDICATORS
1997
Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?*
2011 Standout
Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being*
2005
Children and the elderly: Divergent paths for America’s dependents
1984
Colonial legacies and economic growth
1999
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering
2009 Standout
Mortality decline, human capital investment, and economic growth
2000
Gender and Values
1995 Standout
Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being
2012
History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World
2000 Standout
Consumer Socialization of Children: A Retrospective Look At Twenty‐Five Years of Research
1999 Standout
Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
2006 StandoutNobel
The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century
1992 StandoutNobel
Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?
2005
The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age
2012
How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review
2013
Schooling and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Nonmarket Effects
1984
Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
2008 StandoutNobel
Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
2013
Early Sedentary Economy in the Basin of Mexico
1979 StandoutScience
A theory of migration
1966 Standout
How Can Measures of Subjective Well-Being Be Used to Inform Public Policy?
2007
Happiness adaptation to income and to status in an individual panel
2010
The Influence of Social Hierarchy on Primate Health
2005 StandoutScience
Happiness and Productivity
2009
The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History
1999
What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
2002 Standout
Beyond Money
2004
Toward National Well-Being Accounts
2004 Nobel
Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
2010
Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
2007 StandoutNobel
Money Does not Buy Happiness: Or Does It? A Reassessment Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
2007
A snapshot of the age distribution of psychological well-being in the United States
2010 StandoutNobel
Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans
2004 StandoutScience
Does the Stork Deliver Happiness? Parenthood and Life Satisfaction
2012
Two Happiness Puzzles
2013 StandoutNobel
Works of Richard A. Easterlin being referenced
The happiness–income paradox revisited
2010
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective
1962
American Population since 1940
1980 Nobel
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
2003
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare.
1981
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States
1976
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY†
2012
The Reluctant Economist
2004
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?
1981
Life cycle happiness and its sources
2006
Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory
2001 Standout
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
2007
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare.
1982
Long swings in U.S. demographic and economic growth: Some findings on the historical pattern
1965
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth
1958 StandoutNobel
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven
2005
Will the Baby Boomers be Less Well off Than Their Parents? Income, Wealth, and Family Circumstances over the Life Cycle in the United States
1993
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure
1978
Private Materialism, Personal Self-Fulfillment, Family Life, and Public Interest: The Nature, Effects, and Causes of Recent Changes in the Values of American Youth
1991
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all?
1995 Standout
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality
1999
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany
2006
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture
2001
The Worldwide Standard of Living Since 1800
2000
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth.
1969
Birth and Fortune. The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
1981
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
1981
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
2009
A puzzle for adaptive theory
2004
Population, Labor Force and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience.
1970
Influences in European Overseas Emigration before World War I
1961
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes
1966
Explaining happiness
2003
Growth Triumphant
1996
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries.
1981